Installing fastboot for Ubuntu (Linux)

mkdir ~/fastboot  
cd ~/fastboot  
wget http://xt720.ru/Tools/fastboot  
chmod +x fastboot  
sudo ./fastboot --help

Reference: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1121420

I tested the above with Ubuntu 11.10, but it should work on any ubuntu version I think.

Trying to install scrapy with pip lxml error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

Just tried to install scrapy with pip / easy_install, but when it comes to installing lxml it will give the following error:

gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.7 -c src/lxml/lxml.etree.c -o build/temp.linux-x86_64-2.7/src/lxml/lxml …

Ubuntu 11.10 error while loading shared libraries: libssl.so.0.9.8: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

A quick solution is to install the libssl 0.9.8 package with the Following command:
sudo apt-get install libssl0.9.8

Thanks to Rob who commented below and provided an answer on Stackoverflow

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How to install Setuptools to a specific python version

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Sam the terrorist arrived in China

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The trip started early at 6:30, train to Schiphol and than flight to London, wait in London for 5 hours …