User1291's questions

So I have this Kubuntu VM installed ... unfortunately, I never bothered to install updates.

That wasn't an issue until recently, when I needed to get some new packages and just couldn't.

So I went online and turns out, I still have 17.04 ... whose directories have been taken down.

How do I upgrade from disk? I remember earlier ubuntu derivates gave you the option to when you put in a boot disk, but this time, it's just "Try 18.10" or "Install 18.10".

The VM took some time to set up and there's some data on it that should be properly backed up but I've been too paranoid to actually delete. (Most of my data is in shared folders with the windows host, anyway, but in this particular instance, I had run into permission issues with the files, so I moved them to VM memory.)

So I'd really hate to re-setup the whole thing. -.-

Is there an option to upgrade the running System from the iso?

So I have a project that requires a specific (and modified) version of the jdk, which I am given as a tar.gz.

I'm running a Kubuntu 17.04 in VirtualBox as a guest OS on a Windows 10 host, because the single disk of my laptop has too many partitions to set up dual boot on it.

To save space and to avoid having to move files from the guest to the host or vice versa, I have created a shared folder where I keep most my stuff, and it is within that folder that I tried to extract the jdk.

sudo tar xzf jdk-7u65-linux-x64.tar.gz 

tar: jdk1.7.0_65/bin/ControlPanel: Cannot create symlink to ‘jcontrol’: Read-only file system
tar: jdk1.7.0_65/man/ja: Cannot create symlink to ‘ja_JP.UTF-8’: Read-only file system
tar: jdk1.7.0_65/jre/bin/ControlPanel: Cannot create symlink to ‘jcontrol’: Read-only file system
tar: jdk1.7.0_65/jre/lib/amd64/server/libjsig.so: Cannot create symlink to ‘../libjsig.so’: Read-only file system
tar: Exiting with failure status due to previous errors

I'm also getting these errors when I try to unzip the tarball with WinRAR on the host end unless I run WinRAR as an administrator. Still I don't really like doing it that way because I have no idea if extraction using WinRAR in Windows would do anything wrong to some files for use in Linux.

Is there a way to make this work from the Linux guest system? And if not, why not?

Permissions:

user@linux-VB:~$ namei -l ~/SHRD_FLDR
f: /home/user/SHRD_FLDR
drwxr-xr-x root    root    /
drwxr-xr-x root    root    home
drwxr-xr-x user user user
lrwxrwxrwx user user SHRD_FLDR -> /media/sf_SHRD_FLDR/
drwxr-xr-x root    root      /
drwxr-xr-x root    root      media
drwxrwx--- root    vboxsf    sf_SHRD_FLDR

Using Kubuntu.

cat /etc/issue

Ubuntu 17.04 \n \l

Now let's assume we have installed the default-jdk package:

apt show default-jdk

Package: default-jdk
Version: 2:1.8-57ubuntu1
Priority: optional
Section: devel
Source: java-common (0.57ubuntu1)
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <[email protected]>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Java Maintainers <[email protected]>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 6'144 B
Provides: java-sdk, java2-sdk, java5-sdk, java6-sdk, java7-sdk, java8-sdk
Depends: default-jre (= 2:1.8-57ubuntu1), default-jdk-headless (= 2:1.8-57ubuntu1), openjdk-8-jdk
Homepage: https://wiki.debian.org/Java/
Supported: 9m
Download-Size: 968 B
APT-Manual-Installed: yes
APT-Sources: http://ch.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu zesty/main amd64 Packages
Description: Standard Java or Java compatible Development Kit
 This dependency package points to the Java runtime, or Java compatible
 development kit recommended for this architecture, which is
 openjdk-8-jdk for amd64.

It says here "provides java7-sdk". How do I use that sdk?

Ok ... so I wanted to upload something to an SVN server. How hard can that be? Well, turns out I've been using windumb for too long.

First I am supposed to "clone" the folder to my computer, using

svn co --username USERNAME URL

Alright, so I

cd ~/.../0.SVN
svn co --username USERNAME URL

and get an

svn: OPTIONS from URL: 200 OK.

Next, I create a folder ~/.../0.SVN/someFolder, put some files into that folder and want to add it so I can commit it.

 svn add someFolder

And now it's giving me an

 "." is not a working copy

And I have no idea what's going wrong because I'm basically doing exactly what the instructions I was given are saying.

So I just created the .bash_aliases and wrote the following:

callNotepad(){
     wine C:\\Program\ Files\\Notepad++\\notepad++.exe $1
}

alias notepad++=callNotepad

Now whether notepad++ is already running or not, if it is not it does open notepad++ and either way, it opens whatever file I specify when I call

notepad++ someFile

However, if notepad++ was not running prior to that command, it gives me a

fixme:ole:RemUnknown_QueryInterface No interface for iid {00000019-0000-0000-c000-000000000046}

and then blocks the calling terminal for as long as notepad is running.

How would I implement that alias correctly? For I have no idea what that fixme is supposed to tell me.

Also, I would prefer not having to open a second terminal after opening a file in notepad++ (ctrl+C reenables the terminal but closes notepad++).