Not sure if all of the stuff I installed was necessary, but at least nothing required was missing when I did it like this. I’m writing this down from memory and not on-the-go, so there might be errors, but the idea is there.
# apt-get install miro python python-pyrex \
libboost-python-dev libboost-filesystem-dev \
libboost-date-time-dev libboost-thread-dev \
libboost-serialization-dev python-gtk2-dev \
python-gnome2-extras-dev libxine-dev chrpath \
libxv-dev libssl-dev libffi-dev python-dbus \
python-gtk2 python-gnome2 python-gnome2-extras \
python-glade2 python-gst0.10 imagemagick libxine1-x \
libxine1-plugins xulrunner-1.9 xulrunner-dev$ wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/pculture.org/miro/src/Miro-1.2.8.tar.gz$ tar xvf Miro-1.2.8.tar.gz$ wget \
http://bugzilla.pculture.org/attachment.cgi?id=1096 \
-O miro.patch$ sed -i -e 's/1.1.2/1.2.8/g' miro.patch$ patch -p0 < miro.patch$ cd Miro-1.2.8/platform/gtk-x11$ ./run.sh
This seems to work for Miro 2.5.2 just as well. Just s/1.2.8/2.5.2/g and skip downloading and applying the patch.