It really isn't hard
You just need to open a terminal and do the following few steps.
First step: Getting subversion (for downloading the code) and maven (to build phex):
Code:
sudo apt-get install subversion maven2
Second step: Getting the phex code:
Code:
svn co https://phex.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/phex/phex/trunk phex
Third step: Building and Running Phex:
Code:
cd phex
./build-and-run
That's it, you can now always run the bleeding edge version of Phex via
Code:
svn update ; ./build-and-run
To now change Phex to always prefer Phex, just open the following file from the phex folder in your text editor and change the section I named in the earlier post:
src/main/java/phex/host/CaughtHost.java
And you can run ./build-and-run to run it.
Voilą, your own modified Phex version