Feel free to reorder or extend this page with ubuntu specific stuff.

Package list that works with ubuntu 11.10:

sudo apt-get install \
      make gcc bison flex gawk subversion automake1.10 autoconf autotools-dev \
      autoconf-archive autopoint libtool gettext \
      libpam0g-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng12-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg62-dev \
      libtiff4-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev \
      libxrandr-dev libxfixes-dev libxdamage-dev \
      libxcomposite-dev libxss-dev libxp-dev libxext-dev libxinerama-dev \
      libxft-dev libxfont-dev libxi-dev libxv-dev libxkbfile-dev \
      libxres-dev libxtst-dev libltdl-dev \
      freeglut3-dev xserver-xephyr libdbus-1-dev liblua5.1-0 liblua5.1-0-dev \
      libasound2-dev libudev-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shape0-dev

Package list that works with ubuntu 11.04:

sudo apt-get install \
      make gcc bison flex gawk subversion automake1.10 autoconf autotools-dev \
      autoconf-archive autopoint libtool gettext \
      libpam0g-dev libfreetype6-dev libpng12-dev zlib1g-dev libjpeg62-dev \
      libtiff4-dev libgif-dev librsvg2-dev libx11-dev libxcursor-dev \
      libxrandr-dev libxfixes-dev libxdamage-dev \
      libxcomposite-dev libxss-dev libxp-dev libxext-dev libxinerama-dev \
      libxft-dev libxfont-dev libxi-dev libxv-dev libxkbfile-dev \
      libxres-dev libxtst-dev libltdl-dev \
      libglut3-dev xserver-xephyr libdbus-1-dev liblua5.1-0 liblua5.1-0-dev \
      libasound2-dev libudev-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libxcb1-dev libxcb-shape0-dev

for Ubuntu <= 10.04 Users

Do not need to install 'autopoint'

for emotion and e_thumb add

libgstreamer0.10-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base0.10-dev libexif-dev