Getting Lightning to work with Ubuntu 8.10

The Lightning extension(0.9) of Thunderbird(2.0.0.18) does not work appropriately on Ubuntu 8.10 .

The primary reason is that Lightning works best with libstdc++5 whereas Ubuntu 8.10 comes with libstdc++6.

Following steps will help fix this:

1) sudo apt-get install libstdc++5
2) Un-install the Lightning Extension of Thunderbird
3) Re-install Lightning

Update: The first step fails with Ubuntu 9.10. Install libstdc++5 using the instructions here.