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Setting up Android development environment on a Linux host

By On 23 June 2011 · 4 Comments

Using a PC with FC-15 Linux…

Install eclipse.

Follow all steps on the android development web page to install the Adroid SDK and ADT plugin for eclipse.

If you ever need access to Android’s sources you will need git and a tool named ‘repo’ written by google, which works on top of git. The […]

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Creating and Accessing a VirtualBox shared folder.

By On 12 May 2011 · 1 Comment

To use a Shared Folder on your virtual machine:

1. Use the VirtualBox GUI to add a folder, located on your host (“real”) computer to the list.
This will be the folder that you want to use for sharing and which will be visible on your “guest” machine.

The Shared Folders are available […]

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Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions

By On 12 May 2011 · 1 Comment

How to install the VirtualBox Guest Additions:

1. Get the VBoxGuestAddiitons.iso file from http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04.html

2. Make the VBoxGuestAddiitons.iso available to your “guest” OS: In the Devices menu open “CD/DVD Devices” and select checkbox next to the VBoxGuestAddiitons.iso or if the iso is not there use the Add button to locate and add the iso file […]

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INIT: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/rcS” (or rc)

By On 30 March 2011 · Leave a Comment

PROBLEM:
The Linux init process gets an error that looks like this (in the stderr output):
INIT: cannot execute “/etc/init.d/rc”

Several things may cause this error but in my case it was happening because the rc script had #! /bin/sh on the first line, and /bin/sh was missing.

SOLUTION:
In /bin provide […]

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How to get VirtualBox (Oracle VBox VM) running

By On 25 March 2011 · 2 Comments

After installing the VirtualBox software from Oracle start it up. Depending on your distribution and window manager it will be in the “System’ start menu or it may be somewhere else.

Create a new Virtual Machine (e.g. another Linux box with Fedora – select these from the ‘OS Type’ drop-down boxes). You may select […]

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