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Always looking for a better blog editor for Linux, I just installed Bilbo (recently rename Blogilo for copyright issues). I had some trouble following the process here and getting the Ubuntu packages installed on Linux Mint 6, which you might run into on Ubuntu Intrepid. Manually installing according to this guide also failed. I got ‘class BilboPost’ has no member named ‘setSlug’ upun build among other issues.

So I proceeded like this:

Install dependencies:

sudo apt-get install kdelibs5-dev kdepimlibs5-dev libboost-dev libqt4-sql-sqlite

Get the source from http://www.ohloh.net/p/bilbo/download?filename=bilbo-1.0-src.tar.gz&projects_id=bilbo

Unpack,

sudo tar -xzvf bilbo-1.0-src.tar.gz

Then just follow the steps from the readme:

cd bilbo

mkdir build

cd build

cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config –prefix` ..

make

sudo make install OR su -c ‘make install’

Then I had to manually install the bilbo.desktop file for some reason, so in the directory where you unpacked bilbo:

sudo desktop-file-install bilbo.desktop

Not sure yet whether bilbo/blogilo is really the ultimate blog client for Linux, but so far it seems stable and feature rich and I’ll retire my Blogjet app for now, the HTML it created was somewhat horrible, with FONT tags and such.

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Powered by Bilbo Blogger

Many have tried, all have failed (at least to meet some or most of their expectations); in the quest to find a decent and feature-rich native Linux desktop blog editor, anything that can match the outstanding and free Windows Live Writer. The latter of course won’t run on Linux via Wine, unlike another option: After a long and arduous install/try/remove cycle with most Linux blog editors, I have to agree with this article: in the end you’ll end up with BlogJet and install it this way:

As first suggested here for Zoundry, it works with BlogJet as well and is endorsed by its creator: Get IEs4Linux and from WITHIN IE go to File>Open [All Files] and run the downloaded BlogJet installer:

 Not sure if you’ll need the mfc42.dll file as suggested in the Zoundry article. After a quick install you’ll have a fast and well-designed blog editor on your Linux system which is almost as good as Windows Live Writer at most everyday blogging tasks.

I’ve posted about this nonsensical issue before. As the source link quoted in that post is now dead and the issue continues with the latest version of WLinstaller.exe, here’s the msi source for direct download. It installs fine on Windows Server 2008 (x64) and Windows Server 2003 (32 bit x86). Not sure if it installs on XP Professional x64 as I haven’t tried it, it should though.

And while we’re at it, here are the other files (msi sources):

Windows Live Mail for Windows Server and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Windows Live Messenger for Windows Server and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Windows Live Photo Gallery for Windows Server and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Windows Live Toolbar for Windows Server and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Windows Live One Care - Family Safety for Windows Server and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Windows Live Sign-In Assistant for Windows Server and Windows XP Professional x64 Edition

Positively no support or warranty.

I ran ./configure to install Postgresql-8.3.0 on Linux Mint 4.0 (Daryna)/Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and got the error
checking for C compiler default output file name… configure: error: C compiler cannot create executables
To fix it simply do an
apt-get install build-essential
as recommended here or, as minimal fix:
apt-get install libc6-dev
as recommended here (in the comments).
Btw., this is my first post using flock as a blog editor on Linux. It’s not Windows Live Writer but it works fine.

My Microsoft Annoyance du Jour: Trying to download Live Writer Beta 3 from any computer located in Thailand will bring up a Thai download screen. While I have problem with the Thai page as such I’m not too keen on having the Thai version of the program with all dialogs and help in Thai but this is the only choice:

There is no option to choose another language, and every browser I tested (Opera, IE6, Firefox 1.5) will not let me download the US-English version regardless of browser language settings. I presume this is localization going overboard at Microsoft because there are speakers of many different languages in most countries, including this one. Anyway, here is a download link for the US-English version of Live Writer Beta 3. 

Happy having found the link, MS delivers another blow (they’re good at that):

I’m running Windows Server 2003 and Windows Live Writer Beta 3 (unlike Beta 2) only supports 32-bit Vista (64-bit hacked, get your hex editor ready to install Live stuff) and XP SP2. Bummer. Microsoft continues the practice of forcing users to upgrade to a newer OS by means of getting users hooked on free MS offerings.
It’s now practically impossible to get a MSN Messenger client for Windows 2000 as older clients are denied entry to the service. I know, I know, Win2K is not supported anymore. But this is no justification for forcing users out of a service they’re used to and have built contacts on if they don’t want to upgrade their OS. Besides that, most Live offerings (especially Messenger) have gone from lightweight and functional to the MS-typical buggy bloat (read some comments), with Liver Writer being the exception. For now I’ll be using Beta 2 while looking at ScribeFire and not hold my breath for any Live offering supporting my OS.