Re: LilyBuntu [don't read kainhofer.com!]

[James]

Hello,

On 09/12/2010 15:32, Graham Percival wrote:
> Were you trying to run the autorun.sh , and not the other file that
> you mentioned ?  I think the autorun.sh is the "main" file that you're
> supposed to run.

Yes it is.

I guess it depends if you are all 'point and clicky' or used to using CLI.

The instructions in VBOX own manual tell you to run ./autogen.sh but as 
this is Ubuntu you have to run

sudo ./autogen.sh

then type the password and then the installer does everything for you, 
eventually you will be asked to press return to finish.

Depending on what you are updating your VBOX tools from - you may be 
promoted to reboot.

As a side note when you open VBOX main GUI it will check for any 
updates, if you do download the new VBOX binary, then stop the VM (you 
can shut it down or you can simply close the VM window and 'save state') 
and once the VM is not running or shutdown, close the VBOX main gui and 
run the update.

The VBOX additions will detect on the next start up that they are from 
an older version and depending on what has changed between the VBOX 
update you have used now and had before you may have to run the 
./autogen.sh again.

If you use a windows VM it is easy as you can right click on the system 
tray and install the additions.

This is probably waaay beyond the scope of the CG but I hope this helps 
someone.

Also LilyBuntu is 9.0.4 and this version is no longer maintained by 
'canonical' (?) so I no longer get prompted to update core components as 
I have them all installed.

I only mention this because it is a while since I have reinstalled 
LilyBuntu and I seem to recall the ./autogen.sh script I run prior to 
make, had changed and did a lot more checking of components and apart 
from the dbflatex (?) version (which was slightly behind and generated a 
warning that I was told could be ignored), I cannot remember if I needed 
to apt-get any more core updates. But I didn't have any problems that I 
can remember.

I use VBOX on Windows and on my Mac with LilyBuntu if anyone needs any 
advice or help and I also helped with the CG in parts on this too.

James