Turns out they're now in /home/YourUserName/.local/share/tomboy So after your upgrade, just shut down Tomboy and restore all the .note files from your backup to this directory and the notes you backed up will appear when you launch Tomboy. I actually had to launch Tomboy twice to get them to show up, but they're there now.

The basic procedure remains the same as in my previous post, but I had to install some additional libraries and do things in a slightly different order this time around.

1. Download the AnyConnect installer from your VPN server or get a copy from your VPN administrator. (Why these clients aren't freely available I have no idea. You can only connect to something that someone paid Cisco for, so I'm not sure why the clients can't just be out in the wild. If you Scroogle around you may find some download links here and there but of course use at your own risk if you don't get the client from an authorized source.)
2. Do a chmod +x on the installer (which for me was called vpnsetup.sh) and then run the installer using sudo. This will throw a couple of errors but they can safely be ignored.
3. Install ia32-libs and lib32nss-mdns
• sudo apt-get install ia32-libs lib32nss-mdns
  
4. Download a fresh copy of Firefox, expand, and move to /usr/local
• I downloaded to my Downloads directory, expanded there, and did sudo cp -R firefox /usr/local
5. Do a cd into /usr/local/firefox and create symlinks for the Firefox libraries in /opt/cisco/vpn/lib as follows:
• sudo ln -s libnss3.so /opt/cisco/vpn/lib/nss3.so
• sudo ln -s libplc4.so /opt/cisco/vpn/lib/libplc4.so
• sudo ln -s libnspr4.so /opt/cisco/vpn/lib/libnspr4.so
• sudo ln -s libsmime3.so /opt/cisco/vpn/lib/libsmime3.so
• sudo ln -s libsoftokn3.so /opt/cisco/vpn/lib/libsoftokn3.so
• sudo ln -s libnssdbm3.so /opt/cisco/vpn/lib/libnssdbm3.so
• sudo ln -s libfreebl3.so /opt/cisco/vpn/lib/libfreebl3.so
• sudo ln -s libnssutil3.so /opt/cisco/vpn/lib/libnssutil3.so
• sudo ln -s libplds4.so /opt/cisco/vpn/lib/libplds4.so
• sudo ln -s libsqlite3.so /opt/cisco/vpn/lib/libsqlite3.so
6. Start the VPN daemon: sudo /etc/init.d/vpnagentd_init start (If it doesn't start without errors, double-check all your symlinks.)
   
7. Launch AnyConnect. You should have a launcher under Applications -> Internet, but If not you can launch it from /opt/cisco/vpn/bin/vpnui using your normal user account (i.e. not using sudo).
   

Also, UNE 10.04 doesn't seem to suffer from the native window bug that was present in 9.10, so you don't have to worry about doing this fix anymore.

If you use Eclipse and Subclipse, chances are you've see the "Subversion Native Library Not Available" error (see attached pic). Things tend to work fine even if you see that error (at least they did for me), but I finally took the time the other night to get to the bottom of it and fix it in the easiest way possible.

First, do this:

sudo apt-get install libsvn-java

Next, do this:

sudo cp /usr/lib/jni/* /usr/lib

Now I said "easiest way possible" above because you can monkey around with eclipse.ini -VMARGS and all sorts of other nonsense, but chances are none of those solutions will work if you actually want to use a launcher to launch Eclipse.

So do yourself a favor, drop the files where Eclipse expects to find them, and get on with your life. (As you can tell, I spent more time on this than I wanted to, so I'm simply trying to help others avoid this same fate.)

./install.sfx.3763: not found

Since I'm not the one who ordered the cloud server I wasn't sure if it was 32- or 64-bit, but given the modest amount of RAM we're allocating I was guessing it was 32-bit.

Turns out I was wrong. I decided to try the 64-bit Java installer and it worked fine.

So if you get the mysterious install.sfx error when installing Java you're probably using the installer for the wrong architecture. Grab the "other" installer for your situation and it'll likely solve the problem.

I guess you could also ask the person who ordered the server whether it's 32- or 64-bit, but where's the adventure in that?

Apparently the company who sells the payment processing library can update the license file, but it seemed even easier to simply change the host name of the production server to match what the license is expecting. This way we can move the payment processing functionality to a different machine as needed without having to wait for a new license key to be issued.

The production server in this case is CentOS, so to change the host name you simply update /etc/sysconfig/network with the new host name and reboot.

This is slightly different from Ubuntu, which stores the host name in /etc/hostname. On Ubuntu you can also use the hostname command to change the hostname temporarily, but it will revert back to the value in /etc/hostname when you reboot.

I've been using vpnc as my VPN client on Ubuntu for quite some time now, but vpnc allows for split tunneling (meaning I'm on the VPN but I can still access my local network), and, well, let's just say some network security folks don't like that. ;-) I looked into disabling split tunneling on vpnc and I didn't find any conclusive answers, so it was time to look for an alternative VPN client for Cisco VPNs.

Cisco AnyConnect is a VPN client that can (in theory) be installed from a web browser on any operating system, provided your VPN server is configured to support it. If you want to check, hit your VPN server in a browser. If you see a login screen, log in with your normal VPN credentials and you should be able to install AnyConnect from there.

All isn't rosy with this picture on Linux, however. The browser-based install doesn't work (or didn't for me at least), and while you can download a Linux version of the installer, the installer runs fine but the client throws some errors when you attempt to connect to your VPN. Specifically in my case it was throwing a "no valid certificates" error or something along those lines. As usual there's a relatively simple solution, but it took some digging.

AnyConnect relies on libraries that are distributed with Firefox, but AnyConnect expects these libraries to be located under /usr/local/firefox. On Ubuntu they're located elsewhere so AnyConnect chokes when it's trying to connect.

Once you have AnyConnect installed, go through the following steps to get things working. Also make sure the daemon is running; check using ps -ef | grep vpn and if it isn't running, do sudo /etc/init.d/vpnagentd_init start to fire that up.

1. Download Firefox from mozilla.com. Yes, I know, you already have it installed, but download a fresh copy anyway. Although you may be able to leverage your existing copy, I went this route just to be sure nothing interfered with the copy I use all day every day. I read some things that seemed to indicate you needed to get the 32-bit version if you're on a 64-bit OS, but that wasn't the case for me. I suppose if you have a 32-bit version of AnyConnect you'd want to get the 32-bit version of Firefox.
2. Untar Firefox into /usr/local/firefox
3. Create symlinks in /opt/cisco/vpn/lib to the following files, all of which are located in /usr/local/firefox:
   libnss3.so
   libplc4.so
   libnspr4.so
   libsmime3.so
   libsoftokn3.so
   libnssdbm3.so
   libfreebl3.so
   libnssutil3.so
   libplds4.so
   libsqlite3.so
   (Thanks to casevh in this thread for the list of libraries)
4. Launch AnyConnect (/opt/cisco/vpn/bin/vpnui). From what I read you should not be launching AnyConnect as root or by using sudo.
5. After the client launches, enter the host to which you want to connect.
6. Accept the certificate provided by the server.
7. Enter your user name and password as you normally do.

That's it--you should be in. Note that if you're used to using a profile file with a different VPN client, AnyConnect (at least based on my 1/2 day of experience) seems to work differently, so a user name and password should be all you need. If you're using a SecurID token of course you'll use that as your password.