Blackberry environment problems under Ubuntu

In one of my previous entries I presented the necessary steps to set up a working BlackBerry environment under Ubuntu. It does set up the environment, but that is only the beginning. More problems arise.

There's a big problem regarding the editor. It's so buggy that it makes editing virtually impossible. You could of course write your code in another editor and import it in Eclipse but that doesn't sound too elegant, does it.

The best solution, for now, is to set up your environment under Windows on VirtualBox.

Follow these instructions on installing VirtualBox http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

After the installation, start your machine and follow the steps from this tutorial http://bogdannistor.blogspot.com/2011/01/blackberry-environment-setup-under_17.html

I tested the BlackBerry simulator in VirtualBox on a 2GB of RAM machine and it proved to run quite smooth and, I must say, better than on Ubuntu, on same machine.