diff --git a/install-mts.sh b/install-mts.sh
index 7823665..a18ac06 100755
--- a/install-mts.sh
+++ b/install-mts.sh
@@ -108,16 +108,30 @@ fi
 #pushd "$EXTRACTED_SRC_PATH" || customExit "pushd \"$EXTRACTED_SRC_PATH\" failed in \"`pwd`\""
 
 extra_options=""
+server_option="--server"
+#enable_client_only=false
+
+custom_src_option=""
+PATCH_BUILD=$REPO_PATH/mtcompile-program-local.py
+# ^ custom_src_option requires $PATCH_BUILD to exist.
+
 for var in "$@"
 do
-    if [ "@$var" = "@--client" ]; then
+    if [[ $var = --minetest* ]]; then
+        custom_src_option="$var"
+    elif [ "@$var" = "@--client" ]; then
         ENABLE_CLIENT=true
     elif [ "@$var" = "@--clean" ]; then
         enable_clean=true
         echo "* --clean is deprecated."
+    elif [ "@$var" = "@--no-server" ]; then
+        ENABLE_CLIENT=true
+        server_option=""
     elif [ "@$var" = "@--noclean" ]; then
         enable_clean=false
         echo "* --noclean is deprecated."
+    elif [ "@$var" = "@--portable" ]; then
+        extra_options="$extra_options --portable"
     else
         customExit "Invalid argument: $var"
     fi
@@ -200,15 +214,20 @@ END
 
     start=`date +%s`
     cd "$EXTRACTED_SRC_PATH" || customExit "cd \"$EXTRACTED_SRC_PATH\" failed."
-    if [ -f "mtcompile-program.pl" ]; then
+    if [ ! -z "$custom_src_option" ]; then
+        if [ ! -f "$PATCH_BUILD" ]; then
+            customExit "$PATCH_BUILD must exist when using the --minetest=<path> (custom local copy of minetest source) option")
+        fi
+        $PATCH_BUILD build $server_option $extra_options $custom_src_option >& program.log
+    elif [ -f "mtcompile-program.pl" ]; then
         # perl mtcompile-program.pl build >& program.log
         echo "Compiling via perl (this may take a while--output redirected to `pwd`/program.log)..."
-        perl mtcompile-program.pl build --server $extra_options >& program.log
+        perl mtcompile-program.pl build $server_option $extra_options >& program.log
     else
         # NOTE: no pl in $EXTRACTED_SRC_NAME, assuming bash:
         if [ -f mtcompile-program.sh ]; then
         echo "Compiling via bash (this may take a while--output redirected to `pwd`/program.log)..."
-            bash -e mtcompile-program.sh build --server $extra_options >& program.log
+            bash -e mtcompile-program.sh build $server_option $extra_options >& program.log
         else
             echo
             echo "ERROR: Install cannot finish since there is no"
diff --git a/minetestenv-in-place.rc b/minetestenv-in-place.rc
index 5f0ebe4..8150530 100644
--- a/minetestenv-in-place.rc
+++ b/minetestenv-in-place.rc
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ install_shortcut(){
         fi
         if [ -f "`command -v kquitapp5`" ]; then
             echo "Refreshing KDE icons..."
-            if [ "`command -v kstart5`" ]; then
+            if [ -f "`command -v kstart5`" ]; then
                 kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart5 plasmashell
             else
                 kquitapp5 plasmashell && kstart plasmashell
diff --git a/reset-minetest-install-source.sh b/reset-minetest-install-source.sh
index 686cde8..5e0ba17 100755
--- a/reset-minetest-install-source.sh
+++ b/reset-minetest-install-source.sh
@@ -253,8 +253,42 @@ if [ ! -f "`command -v patch`" ]; then
 fi
 bash -e mtcompile-libraries.sh build >& libraries.log
 mtLibrariesCompileResult=$?
+if [ -z "$DEPS" ]; then
+    DEPS=
+fi
+if [ -z "$DEPS_INSTALL" ]; then
+    DEPS_INSTALL=
+fi
+FEDORA_DEPS="gcc-c++ irrlicht-devel gettext freetype cmake bzip2-devel libpng libjpeg-turbo libXxf86vm mesa-libGLU libsqlite3x-devel libogg-devel libvorbis-devel openal-devel curl-devel luajit-devel lua-devel leveldb-devel ncurses-devel redis hiredis-devel gmp-devel libtool"
+FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo dnf install -y $FEDORA_DEPS"
+UBUNTU_DEPS="libncurses5-dev libgettextpo-dev doxygen libspatialindex-dev libpq-dev postgresql-server-dev-all git build-essential libirrlicht-dev libgettextpo0 libfreetype6-dev cmake libbz2-dev libpng12-dev libjpeg8-dev libxxf86vm-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libsqlite3-dev libogg-dev libvorbis-dev libopenal-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libluajit-5.1-dev liblua5.1-0-dev libleveldb-dev"
+UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y $UBUNTU_DEPS"
+DEPS_INSTALL_MSG="something like    $UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL     #or     $FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL"
+if [ ! -f "`command -v dnf`" ]; then
+    DEPS_INSTALL="$FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL"
+elif [ -f "`command -v yum`" ]; then
+    FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo yum install -y $FEDORA_DEPS"
+    DEPS_INSTALL="$FEDORA_DEPS_INSTALL"
+elif [ -f "`command -v apt`" ]; then
+    UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL="sudo apt update && sudo apt install -y $UBUNTU_DEPS"
+    DEPS_INSTALL="$UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL"
+elif [ -f "`command -v apt-get`" ]; then
+    DEPS_INSTALL="$UBUNTU_DEPS_INSTALL"
+fi
+if [ ! -z "$DEPS_INSTALL" ]; then
+    DEPS_INSTALL_MSG="$DEPS_INSTALL"
+fi
 if [ $mtLibrariesCompileResult -ne 0 ]; then
-    customExit "ERROR: Compiling libraries failed (code $mtLibrariesCompileResult). See $extracted_path/libraries.log" $mtLibrariesCompileResult
+    cat "$extracted_path/libraries.log"
+    echo
+    INSTALL_SOURCE_LOG=$HOME/EnlivenMinetest-install-source.log
+    echo "Try running" > $INSTALL_SOURCE_LOG
+    echo "    $DEPS_INSTALL_MSG" >> $INSTALL_SOURCE_LOG
+    echo "Make sure you have installed the dependencies (listed in $INSTALL_SOURCE_LOG)."
+    if [ ! -z "`grep "libtoolize is needed" $extracted_path/libraries.log`" ]; then
+        echo "You need to install the libtool package to compile the libraries."
+    fi
+    customExit "Compiling libraries failed (code $mtLibrariesCompileResult). See the contents of $extracted_path/libraries.log shown above." $mtLibrariesCompileResult
 fi
 end=`date +%s`
 compile_time=$((end-start))