Feel it

During the Paris Edu meeting, I put together a Ruby script to get Step packaged from playground/edu (the ruby script originated from Amarok then was used for Kalzium then I adapted it for Step and cmake). I also tarred gmm for convenience as it is needed (so if you don't have the whole kdesupport, grab this tarball as well) and you can find those 2 tarballs on the Sourceforge Step webpage.
To install those, it's easy:

- untar the tarball (starting with gmm if you don't have it): tar jxvf nnnn.tar.bz2
- cd into the dir
- mkdir build
- cd build
- cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$KDEDIRS -DCMAKE_COLOR_MAKEFILE:BOOL=true
DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=debugfull ..
- make
- make install (or su -c 'make install')

Step will not be shipped with KDE 4.0 so you're likely to get some crashes but I am quite sure you'll enjoy the neat and intuitive interface, the pre-loaded examples, the interactive help, the integrated context info and the list of available bodies and forces. As Vladimir puts it on the Step website: "With Step you can not only learn but feel how physics works!"