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Fresh install on a VM, try to install packages, broken already. What a mess. Cant delete the ones it thinks are installed, because they dont exist, cant install new ones, because the version is wrong.
This is the first time I have seen ubuntu screw up like this, ever.
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Why are you using 16.04, and not 18.04?
Are you using VirtualBox?
Last weekend, I installed Lubuntu 18.04 into a VirtualBox VM with no problems.
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yes, VirtualBox, and yes, 18.04 is OK, but 16.04 is the one suggested for the build platform.
Sigh, I hate sodding computers. It feels like you are wading through someone else's turds.
modified 30-Nov-18 8:07am.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: . It feels like you are wading through someone else's turds.
I am maintaining code written by a plethora of conSLUTants and a borderline autistic self-taught programmer/manager/technician/scientist.
I am actually wadind throug someone else's turds.
GCS d--(d+) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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den2k88 wrote: I am maintaining code written by a plethora of conSLUTants and a borderline autistic self-taught programmer/manager/technician/scientist.
I am in a very similar situation actually. Old code, written badly, maintained by to many people over too many years.
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Have you considered installing a real OS?
Windows perhaps? 
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I enthusiastically suggest the Windows 10 "October" update 
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Eric Lynch wrote: I enthusiastically suggest the Windows 10 "October" update
So good that you should install it several times!
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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And possibly uninstall it an equal number of times
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Yeah, thats a great platform for building linux images isnt it! /sarcasm
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Microsoft seems to think so. There was an article recently about how VS was capable of do just that. BTW, every time you read the article you get a free cup of Kool-Aid.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Yeah, this is a Yocto build...
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really hope not installing ubuntu in a VM hosted on windows are we?
that'd be like 15 tiny cars coming out of a clown: bass ackwards!
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Why not? A VM is the same as a real machine.
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when you're done there hook up a trailer home to your prius,
afterall a prius is the same as a real car.
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He doesn't own a Prius, That's one thing we can be 100% sure of.
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Bollocks.
I have developed windows drivers on VMs for many many years and a VM is exactly the same as the real hardware.
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Munchies_Matt wrote: VM is exactly the same as the real hardware
...without the need for and electrical plug.
BTW, it's not really *just* like a physical machine, because VirtualBox still can't handle installing video drivers.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote: Munchies_Matt wrote: VM is exactly the same as the real hardware
...without the need for and electrical plug.
I'm down to my VM host only. Next year I'm planning on virtualizing it too. I'll be saving a fortune on power.
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I wasn't questioning virtualbox, just the hosting OS, particularly windows as the host as there are bottlenecks introduced talking to the real hardware
(for instance it's lousy wrogly layered network interface and the way it introduces inefficiencies when a better class disk management is layered upon it in that: for instance NTFS kills the optimizations that for instance ext4 attempts ... the reverse is not true as vm's on linux hosts allow a more direct access to the disk so no fighting of optimizations...)
in short: yes vm on windows is workable, but vm's on *nix are inherently better (speed and resource usage particularly at higher loads). on windows hosts simple stuff is fine, heavy/peak load applications not so much, so you should be right.
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Fundamentally Windows is not an RTOS, so trying to run one in a VM on Windows wont give you the same performance of course, no one would expect that.
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I suggest you skip 17.xx then. It's already been abandoned, and NO package will update without some manual mucking around with suprepository config files.
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two bottles of gin 
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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Sounds great to me. 
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Oh right. I meant "Only two bottles".
"If we don't change direction, we'll end up where we're going"
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