Need to connect to the University of Illinois VPN from an Ubuntu computer? Illinois supports a Microsoft PPTP VPN connection. CITES doesn’t provide detailed instructions for connecting from Ubuntu, but between CITES’ web help and the Ubuntu Wiki, you’re covered.
Use the settings from CITES for your username and password:
http://www.cites.illinois.edu/vpn/otherclients.html
And use the Ubuntu Wiki settings for everything else:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VPN
Follow the instructions at the bottom of the page, under VPN Setup under 8.10. They work for Ubuntu 9.10 as well.
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The problem: Your fresh install of Eclipse won’t succeed in installing any of the plugins that make it wonderful; so Eclipse is useless to you. The specific error you’re seeing is:
The artifact file for osgi.bundle,
org.eclipse.ant.ui,3.4.1.v20090901_r351 was not found.
Rather than analyse, research, and work to fix the problem, you could just trust me that the following Debian-Fu will solve it:
sudo aptitude install eclipse-jdt eclipse-pde
Don’t thank me, thank the nice folks who commented on the bug over at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/eclipse/+bug/477944