FYI, I had problems setting up a VMWare image with Ubuntu 8.10. It appears that the anjuta-plugin is not compatible with that version. When I tried the same steps on 8.04 it worked much better. I simply installed anjuta from standard repository, added "deb
http://debian.o-hand.com hardy/" to /etc/apt/sources.list, apt-get update, then install anjuta-plugin, and enable it in Edit->Preferences->Installed Plugins. That last step, enabling the plugin is what was failing in Ubuntu 8.10