installing FirstClass 8 Client on Ubuntu

** New - updated March 8, 2007 **

SoftArc / FirstClass now offers Linux Clients with Installers. Just installed the Linux Debian Intel version from here:

http://www.firstclass.com/clientdownloads/FC83LinuxDownloadPage

Nice Installer; even overwrote my previous install.

So far, so good…

For Edgy Eft v. 6.1
see the instructions at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/firstclass

** Older Outdated method **

To Get FirstClass Running on Ubuntu Dapper Drake, took 3 steps:

1. Get First Class
Got FirstClass® Client beta 8.043 for Linux Red Hat
Rochester Institute of Technology ‘ s IT dept is maintaining a Linux port of FirstClass:
http://www2.it.rit.edu/~itweb/firstclass/linux.html

2. Convert rpm file
To install a redhat .rpm on Ubuntu, use alien like so ..
assuming the FirstClass client .rpm is on your computer’s desktop…

sudo aptitude update
sudo aptitude install alien
cd ~/Desktop
sudo alien -i *.rpm


3. Get and Install qt3 libraries
Ubuntu does not come with qt3 libraries, so had to get these in order for FirstClass to run.
wget http://ubuntu.mirrors.tds.net/ubuntu/pool/main/q/qt-x11-free/libqt3-mt_3.3.6-1ubuntu3_i386.deb
sudo dpkg -x libqt3-mt_3.3.6-1ubuntu3_i386.deb .
sudo cp -r usr/lib/* /usr/lib


After that FirstClass fired right up!
based on fix for Opera from Ubuntu Forums

Joomla 1.5 beta out!

One Giant Step for the Joomlasphere — Joomla! 1.5 Beta Released
Thursday, 12 October 2006

ImageExactly one year ago, Joomla! 1.0 was released. Today, Joomla! releases the next generation framework built from the ground up. Joomla! 1.5 beta delivers more simplicity for the user and much more power for developers. The innovation and skill of our development team is clearly setting higher and higher standards.

But before we get into reams of detail about just how good Joomla! 1.5 beta is, remember this is a beta and is not yet ready for use on a production website. We need the community to roll up its sleeves and seek out bugs (and feed this back to the development working group), before we enter the release candidate phase.

more at Joomla site

http://www.joomla.org/content/view/2088/74/

Firefox slow on Ubuntu

Hopefully will help others:

Installed the amazing Ubuntu 6.0.6 Dapper Drake distro of Linux on a box, and experienced strange slow speed on Firefox. Would not work on https sites, slow loading or no loading on other sites and pages. Even after updating Firefox to 1.5.0.7

Turns out Ubuntu’s Firefox defaults to the newer IPv6.

How To Fix:
about:config
type 'ipv6'
double-click network.dns.disableIPv6
Restart Firefox


WebBrowsingSlowIPv6IPv4

The Ubuntu development team have enabled the newer Internet protocol, IPv6, by default. However, a lot of older hardware — such as NICs and modems — only supports IPv4. This leaves you wondering why Internet applications take so long to work.

The following instructions disable IPv6 support, allowing users with incompatible hardware to get normal connection speeds and DNS resolving, and by extension faster web browsing.

More details of the IPv6 ‘feature’ here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WebBrowsingSlowIPv6IPv4