Re: Looking for help in configuring LilyDev in VirtualBox

[Michael Käppler]

Am 22.01.2020 um 14:03 schrieb Peter Toye:
> Re: Looking for help in configuring LilyDev in VirtualBox
> > Yes, I would suggest that you start from scratch again.
>
> I made a new guest machine using your instructions. There are a few
> issues here:
>
> Step 3: the file names are LilyDev-1-debian-vm and the raw fle is
> .iso not .raw
Thanks, I fixed this.
> Step11: I got an error from the command:
> [dev@LilyDev:~]$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-layout
> [sudo] password for dev:
> debconf: unable to initialize frontend: Dialog
> debconf: (No usable dialog-like program is installed, so the dialog
> based frontend cannot be used. at
> /usr/share/perl5/Debconf/FrontEnd/Dialog.pm line 76.)
> debconf: falling back to frontend: Readline
> dpkg-query: package 'keyboard-layout' is not installed and no
> information is available
> Use dpkg --info (= dpkg-deb --info) to examine archive files,
> and dpkg --contents (= dpkg-deb --contents) to list their contents.
> /usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: keyboard-layout is not installed
> [dev@LilyDev:~]$
>
> So I used the mechanism in the current CG Step 8 to change the
> keyboard - probably a better idea and more user-friendly. Unless, of
> course, the clipboard is working.
That's because the keyboard-layout package is not installed in LilyDev
v1 by default. In LilyDev v2, it will be there.
> After all that I tried your idea of starting the clipboard manually -
> it worked!! Or I'd never have managed to get the above text right :)
>
> So the basic question is: why isn't it starting up? I used to be a
> Solaris sysadmin, but that ended 20 years ago and my copy of Frisch is
> long gone.
I don't really know because I can't reproduce this behaviour on my machine.

Best regards,
Michael

> > Best regards,
> > Michael
>
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> Peter