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*nix VirtualBox installation

Posted on February 2, 2015. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: author:briang, bsd, debian, freebsd, installation, linux, TODO, ubuntu, virtualbox, xubuntu |

NOTE

The debian stuff is wrong. Select “debian graphical environment”, “Xfce” and “standard utilities” in dselect.

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Installing the OS

• Copy & paste has to be enabled in VirtualBox Manager (General > Advanced > Shared Clipboard = Bidirectional)
• Install (Ubuntu Server) as cleanly as possible. In particular, do not select any packages to install.
• Remove CD/DVD if necessary, and reboot.
• sudo apt-get update and upgrade.
• Choose one:
  • sudo apt-get install build-essential dkms linux-headers-generic xubuntu-desktop (Ubuntu)
  • sudo apt-get install build-essential dkms linux-headers-amd64 xfce (Debian)

Installing VB additions

• Reboot
• Mount Additions ISO from VBox’s Device menu and run:
  sudo bash /media/bri/VBOXADDITIONS_.../VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
  (it may autorun!)
• add user to vboxsf group:
  sudo usermod -a -G vboxsf bri

Install other necessities

• duplicity
  • add-apt-repository ppa:duplicity-team/ppa
apt update
apt install duplicity
  • duplicity --no-encryption file:///media/bri/SAMSUNG/backups/linux /home/o
touch /home/o/.nobackups
• emacs
  • apt-get install emacs24 emacs24-el emacs-goodies-el
• git
  • add-apt-repository ppa:git-core
apt update
apt install git git-el git-man git-doc gitk
• perl

  Make sure at least one source is listed in /etc/apt/sources.list

  • sudo apt-get build-dep perl
• Turn off auto-updates
  • nano /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/20auto-upgrades

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FreeBSD Guest Additions – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqG5TVCy9X4