You can find the tar.gz files for the individual versions on github:

• Source GarminPlugin v0.3.20
• Source GarminPlugin v0.3.18
• Source GarminPlugin v0.3.17
• All source tar.gz downloads

• Install all needed dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core xulrunner-dev zlib1g-dev libusb-dev libtinyxml-dev libgcrypt-dev

• Download source code

git clone http://github.com/adiesner/GarminPlugin.git

• Install garmintools-dev package

sudo apt-get install garmintools-dev

If it is not available, download garmintools source code and compile manually

svn export http://garmintools.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ garmintools
cd garmintools
./configure CXXFLAGS="-fPIC -g -O2" CFLAGS="-g -O2 -fPIC"
make
cd ..

• Compile garminplugin

cd GarminPlugin/src
./configure
make

• Install garminplugin

cp npGarminPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins

• Install all needed dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential subversion git-core xulrunner-dev zlib1g-dev libusb-dev tinyxml-dev pbuilder

• Download source code

git clone http://github.com/adiesner/GarminPlugin.git

• Create pbuilder package

cd GarminPlugin
cd build
cd debian
createBuildEnv.sh natty 0.3.0

• Create deb file using pbuilder (your pbuilder environment must be set up)

cd ../../pbuilder
dpkg-source -b garminplugin-0.3.0
sudo DIST=natty ARCH=amd64 pbuilder build garminplugin_0.3.0-1~natty.dsc

• install the dependencies

emerge -p sci-geosciences/garmintools sci-geosciences/gpsbabel dev-libs/tinyxml dev-libs/libusb

• Make sure that tinyxml is compiled with USE=“stl” and garmintools/gpsbabel with USE=“usb”.

• An ebuild for garmintools can be found here: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371266

• then, as root, do:

cd /tmp
git clone git://github.com/adiesner/GarminPlugin.git
cd GarminPlugin/src
./configure && make
cp npGarminPlugin.so /usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/