Well, honestly, i'm not answering you to make you feel dumb or something, i'm answering you to help you.
I didn't take it that way.
If you only get bad or ironic answers, you should probably overthink your questions. If you ask something that's covered in the faqs or something that you could solve on yourself you don't have to wonder why you get bitchslapped. We like to help, but only people who help themselves.
PS: this could be a good place to start with. And of course you should not miss that.
I didn't mean just here, I meant whereever I have asked for help.
I usually only ask for help when I can't do whatever it is myself, when I created this thread I was really sick and tired of dealing with the problems assosiated with getting (certain) things working on GNU/Linux. If you throw in lack of sleep and stuff, you get me asking for help.
In future I think I'll try to just figure stuff out myself, or just give up. (This isn't solely due to or to do with this forum, it is a gereralised decision I have come to).
P.S. I think along the way I looked at the 1.4 readme and checked that I had all of the dependecies mentioned. Didn't fix the problem though. And installing 1.5 didn't, in a way, fix the problem, only bypassed it.
Anyway, from now on I'll try to keep my mouth shut in even more areas of life.
EDIT: just re-read my OP, I DID state that Iwas probably asking stupid questions.
EDIT2: I've come across that first link elsewhere (not given to me), though I don't think I read it at all at the time. I've had a glance through it, and I think that although I didn't hit 'super uber 1337' question asking, I at least wasn't a complete 'n00b being an idiot and demanding unreasonably things'.
You might find
this useful. Here's a quote with the most relevant (in my opinion) parts highlighted:
Be gentle. Problem-related stress can make people seem rude or stupid even when they're not.