Had some problems installing the Aptana plugin into Eclipse 3.2 on Hardy,

sudo aptitude install eclipse

Then,

sudo apt-get autoremove --purge gcj-4.2-base

Replace,

sudo aptitude install Sun-Java6-jdk

Then install remotely as normal

• http://update.aptana.com/update/studio/3.2/
  • Aptana Forums
  • Aptana Plugin

Finally got a working install of Eclipse 3.4 on Ubuntu Hardy 64-bit, here's how...

sudo apt-get install openjdk-6-jdk

Now update your bashrc file,

nano ~/.bashrc

...adding this line at the end,

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/

Then download Eclipse 3.4

wget http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/eclipse/technology/epp/downloads/release/ganymede/R/eclipse-java-ganymede-linux-gtk.tar.gz
tar xzvf eclipse-java-ganymede-linux-gtk.tar.gz
mv eclipse eclipse3.4

And start with...

eclipse3.4/eclipse

Thanks goes to jhcore.com for this one

Update

This didn't work for me but it might help someone in different circumstances, will keep hacking at it; eventually it'll work.

To make the system shutdown when you press the power button, add the acpid package.

pacman -S acpid

Then add it to the DAEMONS array in rc.conf

DAEMONS = (...... acpid)

Then create a file for the event,

sudo nano /etc/acpi/events/power

With...

# /etc/acpi/events/power
# This is called when the user presses the power button

event=button/power (PWR.||PBTN)
action=/sbin/poweroff

ACPI Shutdown

Now add these two lines to the end of your kernel load in /boot/grub/menu.lst

acpi=on acpi=power-off

What this extra bit will do is force the machine to poweroff completely on shutdown, rather than halting with the power still running.

First install the pre-requisites;

sudo aptitude install linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential
sudo aptitude install xinetd

Download VMWare Server .tar.gz file from here.

Remember to signup for a Serial Number, you'll need that during the install

Download the latest vmware-any-any-update patch here,

Now extract VMWare Server and terminal into it's directory, run,

cd vmware-server-distrib
sudo perl vmware-install.pl

When asked Before running VMware Server for the first time, you need to configure it by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl". Do you want this program to invoke the command for you now? [yes] enter *NO* and patch VMWare with that file.

Extract the files within that patch and Terminal into it's directory,

cd vmware-any-any-update115
sudo ./runme.pl

It should prompt you to run vmware-config.pl, this time say YES and continue with the install.

Afterwards start vmware with,

vmware

You might get a load of errors like this,If you get compile errors, do this;

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6)

That's because one part of the vmware package was compiled with a different version of gcc than the one you're running now, to fix that do:

sudo cp /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/
sudo cp /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/

Now you should be able to start VMWare Server

(tested and working on Ubuntu Hardy 8.04 64-bit)

There's a tool called David's Batch Processor which allows you to batch process images within the free Graphic Image Manipulation Package (GIMP).

To install on Ubuntu Hardy, first...

sudo aptitude install libgimp2.0-dev

Now download David's Batch Processor from here

Extract the file and Terminal into the directory, now make & install the plugin...

sudo make
sudo make install

...if it still doesn't compile make sure you have build-essentials installed, which can be added via,

sudo aptitude install build-essentials

After all this open GIMP (Application / Graphics / GIMP), Click the Xtns tab (next to File) and you should see Batch Process..; click it and you'll open David's Batch Processor.