ubuntu your way

I just installed ubuntu on my new/old company notebook and must say it was quite easy. Last time i tried this i had troubles with about everything, but that was about two years ago. This time everything went smooth.. i mean i had some troubles and had to install it about two times to get it up and running, but that's my fault.

The only real Program which made serious troubles was eclipse. Normally i use Vim to code but with growing projects i had to use a ide which was able to handle them. So i use eclipse and configured it to use Vim whenever i like to. (Added the editor to the php files).

Since i have a windows client i thought i just have to export my eclipse bookmarks and import them on the notebook.. wrong way.. i had so many errors that i did not know which way to go. Fortunately all was saved in the .eclipse directory in my home and i just had to delete it to start from scratch.

This time i started with one Bookmark after another, starting with PDT (since i code php) and installing all needed addons. Finally got it working.

Then subversive where i had to disable a certain update since it uses Win32 libraries (at least that what's the error message told me.)

After installing all addons i had troubles getting svn working since it showed me some kind of PROPFIND error..
Luckily i found some Sites which described the error and that i had to update java at least to version 6 and then tell eclipse to use it instead of the gcj runtime. (german site: http://forum.ubuntuusers.de/viewtopic.php?p=757773#757773)

Installing Java was not the problem, getting eclipse use it was harder. Although i changed it in my private eclipse settings (eclipserc) it still used the global java_home configuration instead so i had to change it there too.

Then finally I got it up and running with all I wanted ever..

Last Program I installed was synergy which is pretty cool! (you should try it)