1. Thunderbird (from apt-get). I tried to use Evolution, but was not convinced. Update : I use now evolution, that I found useful for its integration with others apps. But I mainly use gmail, I use Evolution only to check occasionally a mail account.
2. Flash (from apt-get : "flashplugin-nonfree")
3. Firefox add-ons. I had no backup of my firefox folder, but it was easy with "add-on collector" + "Massive extender" add-ons.
4. JungleDisk workgroup (deb from web)
5. Skype (deb from web)
6. Google Chrome (deb from web)
7. Zend Studio 7.2 (from web)
8. Blogilo (from apt-get) (I needed to install manually libqt4-sql-sqlite, unless I had a "driver not loaded" issue)
9. Picasa (apt-get after config of repository)
10. Filezilla (apt-get)
11. Amule (from apt-get)
12. VirtualBox (deb from web). The best is to add the repository : 1) add the line "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid non-free" in /etc/apt/sources.list. 2) wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - 3) sudo apt-get update 4) sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.1 (source : http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads)
13. VMware player (https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/p/activate.php?p=player&lp=1) to play with some cool jumpBox appliances…

Plus…

1. Tomboy notes (with Ubuntu one synchro, it rocks !)
2. xmind : (deb from web)

1. Uninstall any previous version of air installer (Applications > Accessories > Adobe Air Uninstaller)
2. Install getlibs
3. Download AdobeAIRInstaller and cd to the download directory

4. sudo getlibs ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin
   $ sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so
   $ sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0
   $ sudo getlibs -l libgnome-keyring.so.0.1.1

5. Download libnss3 32b : http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nss/libnss3-1d_3.12.0~beta3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb
6. Download libnspr4 32 : http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/main/n/nspr/libnspr4-0d_4.7.1~beta2-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

7. <code>Extract libnss $ sudo file-roller ./libnss3-1d_3.12.0~beta3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb</code>

8. Double click data.tar.gz (choose open with file-roller if you are asked)
9. select these files in ./usr/lib folder :

   libnss3.so.1d<br />libnssutil3.so.1d<br />libsmime3.so.1d<br />libssl3.so.1d

10. Extract to /usr/lib32 and close file-roller
11. Enter :

    $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libnss3.so.1d /usr/lib32/libnss3.so
    $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libssl3.so.1d /usr/lib32/libssl3.so
    $ sudo ln -s /usr/lib32/libnspr4.so.0d /usr/lib32/libnspr4.so

12. Then :

    <code>$ ./AdobeAIRIntaller.bin</code>

13. <code>sudo cp /usr/lib/libadobecertstore.so /usr/lib32</code>

14. sudo apt-get install lib32nss-mdns

Done !
Accept any update on first launch