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Three steps to Ubuntu Nirvana:

1) I installed 8.10 64 bit version - my first move over to 64bit linux since my computer has a core 2 something or other

2) add these to /etc/apt/sources.list:

# Google repository
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ stable non-free
# Google testing repository
deb http://dl.google.com/linux/deb/ testing non-free

# Skype
deb http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/debian/ stable non-free


# Jef
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jef-norbit/ubuntu intrepid main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jef-norbit/ubuntu intrepid main

3) apt-get install your system into a FOSS GIS developer system:

sudo apt-get install build-essentials vim grass libqt4-core \
libqt4-debug libqt4-dev libqt4-gui libqt4-qt3support libqt4-sql \
lsb-qt4 qt4-designer   qt4-dev-tools qt4-doc qt4-qtconfig uim-qt gcc \
libapt-pkg-perl resolvconf   gdal-bin libgdal1-dev libgeos-dev proj \
libgdal-doc libhdf4g-dev libhdf4g-run python-dev   libgsl0-dev g++ \
libjasper-dev libtiff4-dev subversion libsqlite3-dev sqlite3 ccache \
make libpq-dev flex bison cmake txt2tags python-qt4 python-qt4-dev \
python-sip4 sip4 python-sip4-dev postgresql-8.3-postgis vim ctags \
vim-scripts python-django python-psycopg2 vim apache2 \
sun-java6-fonts python-geoip imagemagick grass-dev ia32-libs \
graphviz txt2tags texlive-fonts-recommended \
texlive-fonts-recommended-doc texlive-latex-base texlive-latex-base-doc \
tipa tex-common texlive-base texlive-base-bin texlive-base-bin-doc \
texlive-common texlive-doc-base gv latex2html texlive-latex-extra \
libqwt5-qt4-dev pyqt4-dev-tools

sudo apt-get remove uim-qt3


Note: the ia32-libs is needed to run google earth under ubuntu 64