I now have AT&T ARO also running on Ubuntu, in addition to the Windows scenario I blogged about earlier:

I managed to get it up and running thanks again to Doug Sillars, who pointed me here:

http://developer.att.com/developer/forward.jsp?passedItemId=14100207&passedItemId=14100207

My plan is to make a screencast soon on HOW to port something like ARO, i.e., as an example of how to do something similar yourself, to a plugin for NetBeans IDE, as a follow up to Five Simple Ways to Extend NetBeans IDE.

Thanks again, Doug.