John Ward took the weekend off to work with Eclipse Callisto under Ubuntu and was disappointed with the performance of BIRT. He tells us that there were many issues in getting BIRT to work under Ubuntu and most of the necessary components were not being installed. However, John found working with Callisto on Windows a breeze and offers tips on getting it up and running in Windows.

In ten steps, John takes you from downloading the zip file, installing it, launching the program and running updates. John even explains what to do in case the download follows an alternate path or in case of errors. The short tutorial is complete with screenshots of the download and installation process.