Eclipse bzr integration

There is a plugin for Eclipse called bzr-eclipse, you can install it within Eclipse simply enough, but it also requires that you install a bzr plugin called bzr-xmloutput, which isn't packaged for Ubuntu Intrepid.

I'm not a believer in dropping files across my file system and will try many things before untarring something into my system. Packages are there for a reason, and I'm not about to try and break things by fixing them if you know what I mean.

Fortunately, bzr-xmloutput is packaged for Jaunty, but it requires python-central that is of a later pedigry than the current one in Intrepid.

So, this worked for me:

1. Download bzr-xmloutput (Jaunty package) and python-central (Jaunty package) from Jaunty.
2. sudo dpkg -i python-central_0.6.11ubuntu6_all.deb bzr-xmloutput_0.8.3-0ubuntu1_all.deb

If you're doing this, it's likely that the versions here are not the latest, so make sure you check that.

Thunderbird, Google Calendar under Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10

To make Google Calendars visible and editable under Ubuntu Intrepid, you need to install three things:

1. sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
2. Download Lightning (v0.9)
3. Download Provider for Google Calendar (v0.5.1)