Bushman! Well, the project is now hosted on GitHub, the build system is now based on cmake and is a lot better than the old makefiles that sucked :P (
http://www.eqemulator.net/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=CMake)
There are now two quest systems, perl and lua, both are used by PEQ's quest system. (so you probably want to enable both of them)
PEQ's DB is now dumped daily and you can find more info here
http://www.peqtgc.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=14037
The dependencies haven't really changed, just need lua and boost now I think (in addition to the previous depends) The GCC version also got changed to min version 4.6, which Ubuntu 12.04 uses, so you should be good.