Installing WICD on ubuntu 10.04 ( kernel 2.6.32-40 )

This tutorial is for those who are fed up with there UI network manager and want to try something more smarter and better!
WICD is an application i found to be extremly light and better then the usual NM - the default networking application.
to get started download the WICD source tarball frrom its legit website, the link is provided as follows!

https://launchpad.net/wicd/1.7/1.7.1/+download/wicd-1.7.1.tar.gz

This is the latest tarball till date.

Now im assuming to be in the Download folder, go there and untar it right away!
now lets get to work

Open the terminal and do this

#sudo su
#apt-get update
#cd Downloads
#cd wicd-1.7.1~b3
#python setup.py update_translations_py
#python setup.py get_translations
#python setup.py configure
#python setup.py install

Thats it - go to application and u will see WICD listed click on it let it have root priviliges and it will be working!