Installing CurlFtpFS on Ubuntu Edgy to mount FTP shares

To mount an FTP share under Ubuntu linux there are at least two choiches: LUFS and ftpFS.
After reading this post, I opted for ftpFS, through CurlFtpFS. The most comprehensive tutorial to install it under Ubuntu Edgy I have found is this one.
By purging all comments you get this simple way to install:

1. become root:
   

   prompt#: sudo -i



2. install the necessary libraries:
   

   prompt#: apt-get install libc6 libcomerr2 libcurl3 libfuse2
   libglib2.0-0 libidn11 libkrb53 libssl0.9.8 zlib1g fuse-utils



3. download backport package for Edgy from here: curlftpfs-0.9.1-1_edgy.tar.bz2;
4. unpack with:
   

   prompt#: mkdir curlftps-edgy
   prompt#: tar xvjf curlftpfs-0.9.1-1_edgy.tar.bz2 -C curlftps-edgy
   



5. install .deb package:
   

   prompt#: dpkg -i curlftpfs_0.9.1-1_i386.deb



6. clean up:
   

   prompt#: rm -r curlftps-edgy



7. let mount recognize the filesystem type:
   

   prompt#: ln -s /usr/bin/curlftpfs /sbin/mount.curlftpfs 

If you need to mount in fstab, add the proper line to fstab itself:

ftpusername:ftppassword@ftp.site.address /path/to/mountpoint curlftpfs 
rw,allow_other,uid=userid,gid=groupid 0 0

Unsupported versions of Ubuntu - repos and distros

One of my linux boxes runs on Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, which is no longer supported. It runs good, the machine is quite old and I have no reason to upgrade, but sometimes I need to (re)install some packages. Unfortunately official repositories are not available anymore, but after googling a lot I came across a forum thread that pointed to the right site.



Here is for reference: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/



It contains repositories and distributions for all old versions of Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Edubuntu.



Still for reference, "sources.list" in /etc/apt should have lines like :

deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy main restricted
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-updates main restricted
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ edgy-backports main restricted universe
deb http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted
deb-src http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu edgy-security main restricted