Wow, do you have Jedi powers? I visited this topic on the saturday, tried the link and it was dead. It's like you read my mind.
In the meantime, I sent an email to the current maintainer of the uqm debian repository, Dmitry E. Oboukhov http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=unera%40debian.org
Asked him if he plans to continue updating the package.

Thank you very much, oldlaptop! I'm using the Ubuntu 12.04 64amd binaries, with content, 3domusic and 3dovoice, works perfectly. I agree with meep-eep, the official repositories should be updated, and you would make a good maintainer.

Hi
It's me, mamangava. Apparently I lost access to my old login. I admit it's been a long time I don't show up. I came back to the UQM world a few days ago, and realized a lot happened since then, like UQM 0.7.0 and the Project 6014.
Last time I touched this, I had started translating the files in alphabetical order (so I started with the arilou lines). Then I changed my mind and tried to translate in order of appearance in the game - so it would be easier to do partial tests. I tried to remember the order of events, looked for a walkthrough to help me, and didn't like any I found. So I switched to making a walkthrough of my own - with an attempt of chronological order, clarity, and as few spoilers as possible.
The walkthrough is almost done, and I translated a few files: arilou, starcon, intro, comandr, moonbase, half of ilwrath and a bit of urquan. But this was way back then. It's been more than 2 years I don't touch any of this. But since I finished college I'm able to resume working on this project. And reading about Project 6014 made me excited about it again.
I haven't played 0.7.0 yet, I'm going to try to install oldlaptop's ubuntu package. I read it also adds dialogues to a few races.