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Having tried Bilbo/Blogilo for a while now, I found it to be a fine editor but a bit too intrusive in altering the HTML code I created in code view when I switched back to Bilbo’s WYSIWYG view.

So I tried good old BlogJet again and found there’s a (free) upgrade to the new version 2.5 (currently 2.5.0.15), among other goodies making it Unicode compatible and letting you create categories from within the editor (only for Wordpress blogs), still a rare feature outside of Live Writer.

To install it, proceed just like with the prior versions, as outlined here. You have to open the downloaded installer (BlogJetSetup.2.x.x.x.exe) from the file menu in IEs4Linux and proceed. Simply clicking the downloaded installer will give you an installation without necessary HTML components and it won’t display any content.

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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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.