I have recently created an Ubuntu PPA to make the Translate.org.za software more accessible. At the moment only the Translate Toolkit and Virtaal is packaged, with Pootle to follow soon.

Please let me know if there are any questions, problems or comments.

Over the last two weeks Virtaal's code has been refactored to be more easily extendible. Changing Virtaal to a MVC architecture proved to be quite an intense and interesting endeavor (my GTalk status was "Deep hack mode" for most of these two weeks), but well worth it. And here we are! Virtaal's MVC branch is just about on par with the trunk version.