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markp3rry
June 18th, 2010, 10:23 AM
Hello,

I installed Ubuntu for the first time today inside Virtual Box. I want to do some Ruby on Rails development so I need to get Ruby and MySQL installed.

I have seen loads of posts on different sites telling me that to install MySQL all I need to do is open a terminal and type the following:

sudo apt-get install mysql-server

but when I do this I get a message telling me something like 'E: couldn't find package'. The same happens when I try to install Ruby.

Where are these packages? Are they supposed to come as part of the Ubuntu install? If so how do i access them? Or do I need to download them first? I'm confused.

I'm using Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

Thanks.

ronnielsen1
June 18th, 2010, 10:34 AM
Do you have networking setup in your vm?

wojox
June 18th, 2010, 10:35 AM
Try opening Synaptic Package Manager and searching for them.

System > Admin > Synaptic