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Installing Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on VirtualBox
- Choose download updates while installing
- Choose to install 3rd party software
Install VirtualBox Guest Additions
- sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic
- Still reports current running kernel headers not installed
- Guest Additions installed okay
Install MyUnity to tweak fonts
Use sudo -i instead of root
Cannot manage Network connections (grayed out)
- Manage some network settings through the System Settings Menu
- Edit /etc/NetworkManager/NetworkManger.conf
- Change line to managed=true
- sudo service network-manager restart
Install and configure vpnc packages
- Precise (12.04 release)
- Searched for "network-manager-vpnc" and installed
- It then installed these 3 packages
- Lucid (10.04 release)
- In Ubuntu Software Center, choose All Software and search for network-manager-vpn
- You should see network-manager-vpnc-gnome and network-manager-vpnc; install both.
- If it can't find these packages, may need to check /etc/apt/sources.list
- Example line to add: deb http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ubuntu precise main universe
- Now 3 vpn software packages should be installed:
- network-manager-vpnc
- network-manager-vpnc-gnome
- vpnc (seems to get installed from other 2)
- Add VPN connection
- In advanced options of VPN configuration, there is a setting called Transport and Security. Set "NAT traversal" to Cisco UDP
- Also changed line in /etc/nsswitch.conf from "hosts: files mdns4_minimal [NOTFOUND=return] dns mdns 4 mdns" to "hosts: files dns". Probably not needed; located from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1842371
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