Comment 22 for bug 349650

Thank you very much! Following your instructions allowed me to compile it. For anyone interested, here are links to my compiled version (you'll need both files):

http://www.4shared.com/file/106276272/d806802b/gnome-pilot_2017-0ubuntu2_i386.html
http://www.4shared.com/file/106276835/2f99555a/libgnome-pilot2_2017-0ubuntu2_i386.html

Please notice that by using these you're trusting me by installing a software that'll have the same access rights to your system you yourself have, and so on and so forth, so if you want to be sure, wait for them to appear in the official repositories. Otherwise, proceed with due caution.

That said, if you want to use those, place them in a folder, open a terminal, cd there, run this:

$ sudo dpkg -i ./gnome-pilot_2.0.17-0ubuntu2_i386.deb ./libgnome-pilot2_2.0.17-0ubuntu2_i386.deb

And the add the applet to your panel as usual.