This assumes that you already have Compiz-fusion installed and are after that little extra.
First off, you’ll need to grab the emerald sources, which can be found here:
http://releases.compiz-fusion.org/0.7.6/emerald-0.7.6.tar.bz2
Do your normal unpack, cd, ./configure, make, make install.
That will work but there’s a small tweak needed to get it running. It places the needed libraries into /usr/local/lib.
Check to see that the path is in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/libc.conf. If it is, good, if not, add it. Then run ldconfig as root. It will update the paths and all should be working after that. Check with emerald –replace.
Here we go again... 
When I tried to do this, I typed cd emerald-0.7.6, and ./configure seemed to work fine, but when I used make, it said, “make: *** No targets specified and no makefile found. Stop.” Is there another step somewhere that I’m not getting?
To be honest, I hate compiling, and have rarely been successful with it. I do have all the necessary components, from what I can tell. I just don’t know enough to make this work, and don’t have the time to invest in learning why this isn’t working for me. Any help would be appreciated. A .deb file would be appreciated even more! I’m all about apt, dpkg, and synaptic! 🙂
I would check over the output of the ./configure command again. There’s probably something in there that you missed.