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I answered my own question... I did try installing some additional libraries based on another page, then saw that the the one did the debugging as root - I then tried running Energia as root, and I had the necessary options in the menu and it's all working.

Thanks, crow1982, that's got my Energia so it will compile sketches (I'm on Ubuntu 12.04/32-bit). However, I still can't deploy to the MSP430 as I have no serial ports listed, so there seems to be something else needed from stock Ubuntu 12.04/32bit, but I don't know what - any ideas?