CheckGMail — Fixing 401 error with Google Apps accounts in Ubuntu/Linux Mint.

I’m a pretty heavy Gmail user and I’ve recently gotten everything moved over to my account (finally), but getting some of my ancillary non-Google stuff to play along has been quite difficult.

I just baught a Samsung/Google Nexus S (which I LOVE! and Gingerbread is fantastic) and paired my Google Apps account to it to find I cannot use Google Apps Google Checkout account to buy apps from the Android Market (!!!!@&@&), but that is a whole other article…

Anyhoo, I’ve found that the stock CheckGMail you get from the repos doesn’t seem to work and if you Google around you’ll find complains back to 2007 for various issues related to GMail or the project itself.  Various fixes are put forth requiring you to grab the latest subversion snapshot to replacing certain perl libraries and disabling this or that.

These are the fixes I used to get the program working again with my google apps account…

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Linux Mint Debian Edition – Fixing the Clock Applet

Linux Mint is awesome!

From their site:

The purpose of Linux Mint is to produce a modern, elegant and comfortable operating system which is both powerful and easy to use.

Started in 2006, Linux Mint is now the 4th most widely used home operating system behind Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS and Canonical’s Ubuntu.

It installs beautifully and just works!

Linux Mint Debian Edition is awesome++

Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) is a rolling distribution based on Debian Testing.

The purpose of LMDE is to look identical to the main edition and to provide the same functionality while using Debian as a base.

It’s a little rougher around the edges, but the rolling updates makes it totally worth it,

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