Re: [Hampshire] Virtual Machine questions

Russell Gadd wrote:
> Hi Sean,
>
> Since you said you didn't have any problems installing it this way I
> tried it. However it failed just the same. I kept my eyes on the
> "details" panel and the same error flashed by, although Synaptic
> didn't tell me about it when it had finished. In any case the Ubuntu
> community website recipe uses apt-get which does use the version in
> the repositories.
>
> I haven't resorted to trying to install the source manually and
> compiling, as clearly others have been able to do it the easy way with
> dowloaded binaries.
>
> I may try installing it under Debian Etch (as I have it as one of my
> multibooted OS's) to see if I can get any joy there.

Darn, was hoping for a quick-fix there!

What version of Ubuntu Gutsy are you using Russell - 32-bit or 64-bit? I
am a little curious as to what might be missing from your build that is
preventing a successful installation via the repositories.

Sean