Is there an easy way to compile any random wallet from the GIT on Xubuntu 13.10?
I tried that during the Moon launch when multipool died. But I didn't succeed before another pools came online, so I just went to them.
It seemed I needed some packages which weren't from the repo and/or were replaced by newer but incomplete versions.

You have to have the proper dependencies installed
You can try
$sudo apt-get install build-esssential libboost-dev libdb48-dev libopenssl-dev libdb++-dev git qt-sdk
You may have to find versions that work on your specific build
Then
git clone https://github.com/anherocoin/AnHeroCoin
followed by
cd AnHeroCoin/src
make -f makefile.unix USE_UPNP=-