I built a vm environment with vagrant, that will construct a fully functional VM running EQEmu. It builds it from scratch, from source using the latest code.
See:
https://github.com/brainiac/eqemu-env
Virtually no work is required, provided you have Vagrant installed and functional. See
http://www.vagrantup.com for information on getting and installing Vagrant
By running "vagrant up" and following the instructions you will have a linux based eqemu in a matter of minutes (dependent on the speed of your internet and cpu)
I am accepting suggestions, pull requests, etc. Just let me know if this works for you or if you think things could be improved.
edit: This was loosely inspired by ProSkeptic's post:
http://www.eqemulator.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35116