Re: Fun with upgrades - not

[Federico Bruni]

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 4:50 PM, Phil Holmes <address@hidden> 
wrote:
> Last week I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade from Ubuntu 10.04 
> to a
> more recent version.  I downloaded an upgrade to 12.04, and then used 
> that
> to do an online upgrade to 14.04.  As a result of this, I lost most 
> of the
> applications needed to build LilyPond.  I've grabbed a number of then 
> with
> the software installer or apt, but gave that up for a while whilst I
> needed the machine for another purpose.

I would first try to set up the system and avoid virtual machines for 
LilyPond development.
Installing the dependencies should be as easy as:

sudo apt-get build-dep lilypond

If/When something breaks, you might consider the virtual machine.

> This was to run a Windows 7 VM - I use this with Adobe Lightroom 6 
> (which
> won't run on my Vista desktop) for editing my photos.  So I installed 
> the
> latest Oracle VirtualBox and discovered that 14.04 mounts its disks in
> media/username, meaning that VB could not find the image of my VM.  I
> hacked the set up file by hand, and got the VM running.  Problem is, 
> it
> runs like a complete drain, taking about two minutes to move between
> photos.  The VM on 10.04 was instantaneous.  No idea why this should 
> be,
> but I got so p**sed of with it that I've ordered a new PC just for my
> photography.

I would have tried another virtual machine (libvirt and virt-viewer 
work great) and/or another guest.

By the way, do you know Darktable?
http://www.darktable.org/

I think that it's very similar to Lightroom, but it's open source and 
runs on Linux and Mac.
It works very well and it's actively developed.

> So I'm back to thinking about what to do with the Linux installation. 
>  An
> option would be to start from scratch with the latest version of 
> LilyDev.
> My concern is how this would mount my two non-system disks: a 2TB hard
> drive and an SSD.  With 14.04, if I access my SSD from my "patchy" 
> user,
> my mail "phil" uer can't see the drive since it seems to mount at
> media/patchy.

I don't understand clearly what's your setup, but at work I'm using 
Samba to share folders between Linux guest and Windows 7 host.

> I'm also not sure how I would best go about GUB builds.
> Previously I had a 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04 VM running on the 10.04 machine
> from a "gub" user.  Not sure whether it would be best to save the VM 
> image
> and try to transfer it to the new build, or forget about it and start 
> from
> scratch again.  Also not sure whether GUB will run OK just on the base
> LilyDev build, rather than in a VM?  I'm concerned that if Windows is 
> so
> slow on a VM on 14.04, perhaps the GUB Linux will have the same 
> problem?

I've never tried running GUB, so LilyDev doesn't support it. And GUB 
requires python2.4, right?