New to Pocket Mine - Fell misled to how easy it would be...

I'm running a Linux desktop at home, and thought, wouldn't it be nice to put a server on here for my kids to use, so they could get into a world at any time, and not rely on someone else's device to be on for them to be in the same world.

I find Pocket Mine, and it's main page says, just check a few dependencies, which I thought I did, and download it's package using "wget" and then "start[.sh]" it, and put in a few parameters, and your there.

I do all that, it acts like it worked, but it's not showing up on the MCPE app. I'm like, what's wrong. I go through my system making sure nothing is stopping me, but then I find this forum, and start reading about downloading additional things and I'm like, where's the official instructions on this? I can't find them, so I stumble through a few posts and finally do the following to get it working (which I hope helps someone else new to Pocket Mine with getting their server going):

wget -q -O - http://get.pocketmine.net/ | bash
./start.sh
Can't find php7 (we'll duh, you came with php5 instead).
vi ./start.sh
[replace php7 with php5]
./start.sh
[answer questions, seems to be up and running, but find it doesn't actually work]
stop
[do a bunch of other pointless stuff that get's me nowhere]
wget -q -O PocketMine-MP.phar https://bintray.com/artifact/download/pocketmine/PocketMine/PocketMine-MP_1.6dev-8_a6cd526e_API-2.0.0.phar
[Nope, out-dated post, didn't work - more digging around to find the right one]
wget -q -O PocketMine-MP.phar https://bintray.com/artifact/download/pocketmine/PocketMine/PocketMine-MP_1.6dev-23_6ba0abf5_API-2.0.0.phar
[That works - probably won't in the near future - , but now it's complaining about wanting php7 again]
[more searching, and then... O, look and compile script...]
wget -q -O complie.sh https://raw.githubusercontent.com/PocketMine/php-build-scripts/master/compile.sh
sudo ./complie.sh
[wants autoconf - thought I already had it, but ok]
sudo apt-get install autoconf
sudo ./complie.sh
[wants libtool - again thought... well what ever...]
sudo apt-get install libtool
sudo ./complie.sh
[yeah, ok bison]
sudo apt-get install bison
sudo ./complie.sh
[g++?]
sudo apt-get install g++
sudo ./complie.sh
[Hey it did a bunch of stuff...]
./start.sh

And now it works! If I had a better idea of what all I actually did, and what actually worked and what was unnecessary, I'd put it into a more formal document on how to get PocketMine to work on an Ubuntu 14.04 desktop, but it's late and I need to go to bed now.

Thanks,
- Spaldam.com

P.S. now to figure out how to get my MCPE world, that my kids love so much, imported into the server. The instructions I found are probably out of date as they don't seem to work.

Maybe we should loop this script with each word in the error ouput.

Thanks! Maybe those links would be best presented on the installation instructions found on the main pocketmine.net page? Just a suggestion...

Actually this needs to be put under the Linux instructions for downloading PocketMine for Linux:

http://pocketmine-mp.readthedocs.org/en/latest/installation.html#installing-on-linux-macos

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