I recently installed the LinApplePie version of LinApple in Xubuntu 16.10. In order to compile from source, you’ll need to install the following:

libsdl1.2-dev (for SDL2 development)

libcurl-ocaml-dev (for CURL development)

libzip-dev (for zip file handling)

libsdl-image1.2-dev (for SDL2 images)

It’s possible that other requirements might exist but these seemed to satisfy my system; I always install build-essentials when installing Xubuntu, so if the above doesn’t work you might also give that a try. Remember, you’ll need to use

sudo apt-get install

as regular user accounts won’t work. The final executable (linapple) will be in your src folder so you’ll ultimately need to move it somewhere in the path if you want to run it from arbitrary locations, as well as setting some additional configuration settings to mark the location of MASTER.DSK and/or other files.