Attention: The following is a work in progress.

Installing Simias

Add repository to install cli-common-dev 0.7.1 plus the GPG key.

sudo bash -c "echo '# Repository for cli-common-dev' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
sudo bash -c "echo 'deb http://badgerports.org/  lucid main' >> /etc/apt/sources.list"
wget http://badgerports.org/directhex.ppa.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

Install required packages.

sudo apt-get install bzr bzr-builddep devscripts equivs automake libtool liblog4net-cil-dev autoconf mono-xsp2-base cli-common-dev uuid-dev libxml2-dev gsoap libflaim-dev mono-devel

Get source and compile.

cd /tmp
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~csights/+junk/simias/
cd simias
mk-build-deps
sudo dpkg -i simias-build-deps_1.0_all.deb
bzr-buildpackage 

During execution of bzr-buildpackage you need to Ignore the following error message. It's related to signing the package which can only be done by the maintainer.

running debsign failed bzr: ERROR: The build failed. 

Last step is to install the generated packages.

cd ../build-area
sudo dpkg -i simias-common*deb libsimias*deb simias-client*deb 

Installing iFolder Client

Install required packages.

sudo apt-get install libgtk2.0-cil-dev libgnome2.0-cil-dev libgconf2.0-cil-dev gtk-sharp2-gapi libgtk2.0-dev libglade2.0-cil-dev libsimias-dev

Get source and compile.

cd /tmp
bzr branch http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~csights/+junk/ifolder-client/ 
cd simias
mk-build-deps
sudo dpkg -i ifolder3-build-deps_1.0_all.deb
bzr-buildpackage 

Last step is to install the generated packages.

cd ../build-area
sudo dpkg -i ifolder*deb

References

http://groups.google.com/group/ifolder-ubuntu-debian-dev/t/70ea1a0c2198b573