Installing VirtualBox Guest Additions on Ubuntu 10.04

This worked for me (32bit):


1. Install dependencies:

$> sudo apt-get install dkms
$> sudo apt-get install build-essential

2. Reboot

$> sudo reboot

3. Menu bar -> Devices -> Install Guest Additions...

4. Mount Guest Additions ISO:

$> cd /media
$> sudo mkdir cdrom
$> sudo mount /dev/cdrom /media/cdrom

5. Install Guest Additions:

$> cd cdrom
$> sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run


Hope that helped

The Eclipse executable launcher was unable to locate its companion shared library

How I fixed this error ( Ubuntu 10.4 32bit ):

1. Finding the eclipse launcher shared library and saving the path to a variable

$> path=$(find /path/to/eclipse -iname eclipse_1206.so)

2. Check var

$> echo $path

The path should look something like this:

/opt/eclipse/plugins/org.eclipse.equinox.launcher.gtk.linux.x86_1.0.200.v20090520/eclipse_1206.so

3. Change access rights to the launcher:

$> sudo chmod 755 $path



That's it. Hope that helped