Issues with apt command

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Hello, I am trying to install software with my Ubuntu OS system and I continue to get errors every time I try to run the apt install command. There is a linux download for the application I am trying to download on the company site so I know it is possible to download the software. I am running the command : "sudo apt install ./genymotion-3.2.1-linux_x64.bin" and continue to get errors. I've tried running the command in different ways and each time I'll get different errors saying unable to locate file or unable to support the file given on command line. It is not strictly with this application but with all software I've been trying to install.

Greetings @Alex-Martinez-0

I did a quick Google search for "how to install genymotion on ubuntu" and found this article. Looks like a pretty good step-by-step!

https://linuxhint.com/install_genymotion_android_emuator_ubuntu/

I hope that helps.

Daniel

Hey @daniel-lowrie87 , this article has been very helpful so I do appreciate the post. However once successfully installing genymotion and trying to run it, it tells me my CPU is incompatible with virtualization technologies. Then looking further on genymotion's website they state that genymotion is not compatible with VMs. Yet this does not make too much sense because on the article you attached the first step they instruct is to download virtualbox. I do appreciate all your time, thank you

Hey @daniel-lowrie87 I am still facing this issue and it is not just with the genymotion application but with others as well. When trying to run a VM inside my Ubuntu VM it does not allow me to start the machine up and will give me the error, "Systems: Acceleration page: The hardware virtualization is enabled in the Acceleration section of the System page although it is not supported by the host system. It should be disabled in order to start the virtual system." Now I've tried following what it states but the tab to change it is either grayed out or does not let me click OK once I finally make the change. I feel this is all tied together with the same problem that is having difficulties booting the genymotion app up because it all has to do with virtualization issues within the VM. I made sure I can successfully run genymotion on my desktop OS to rule it out. I've spent my day today surfing through youtube and google looking at all the walkthroughs telling me to go into my desktop bios to enable virtualization and so forth.., yet nothing has worked for me yet. Any time and help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

@alex-martinez-0 said in Issues with apt command:

Hey @daniel-lowrie87 I am still facing this issue and it is not just with the genymotion application but with others as well. When trying to run a VM inside my Ubuntu VM it does not allow me to start the machine up and will give me the error, "Systems: Acceleration page: The hardware virtualization is enabled in the Acceleration section of the System page although it is not supported by the host system. It should be disabled in order to start the virtual system."

Hello Alex,

I'm jumping just because I think I may know what is happening here. At one time, you couldn't run a "VM within an VM." This was problematic. Today, with SLAT (Second Level Address Translation) is is possible but your hardware must support it. If your hardware doesn't support it, you cannot do it. Most virtualization technology reads whether the technology is available to you or not. If not, the feature that says it's possible, is usually grayed out.

Okay, I appreciate your post @Ronnie-Wong --- So what you are saying is I may just need to get a new PC? Because the one I have been using to study on is very old. It is the family computer that has not been renewed in at least a decade.

@alex-martinez-0 said in Issues with apt command:

Okay, I appreciate your post @Ronnie-Wong --- So what you are saying is I may just need to get a new PC? Because the one I have been using to study on is very old. It is the family computer that has not been renewed in at least a decade.

I would look for spec that support virtualization and what I think intel calls EPT (Extended Paging Tables or AMD SLAT (Second Level Address Translation).

The issue though that you'll have to enable it in BIOS.

Then the other issue is performance. VMs within VMs is incredibly "voodooish", it may work somedays insanely well....other days it may run like a dog.

I would do this if I didn't have any other choice....but not for anything that is critical.