# vagrant-ubuntu-precise-64

**Repository Path**: mirrors_regular/vagrant-ubuntu-precise-64

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: vagrant-ubuntu-precise-64
- **Description**: Automatic vagrant base box building
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: MIT
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-09-25
- **Last Updated**: 2026-10-24

## Categories & Tags

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## README

## About

This script will: 

 1. download the Ubuntu 12.04 alternate server, 64bit iso
 2. ... do some magic to turn it into a vagrant box file
 3. output package.box 

## Usage

    ./build.sh

This should do everything you need. If you don't have 
mkisofs, install [homebrew](http://mxcl.github.com/homebrew/), then:

    brew install cdrtools
    
or, if you are on mountain lion

    brew install dvdrtools


### Jan's notes

 - Upgraded the script to download ubuntu-12.04.1-alternate-amd64
 - added a note about installing mkisofs on mountain lion.

Possible extra steps for OSX Lion:

 - You may have trouble compiling the `smake` dependency of cdrtools with XCode 4.2.x or earlier. If compilation hangs, upgrade to XCode 4.3.x (free app store upgrade), open XCode and install the Command Line Tools (Preferences -> Downloads).
 - tar 2.8.3 with libarchive 2.8.3 may fail to extract from the ISO image.  If this happens, update libarchive (will install to `/usr/local/bin/bsdtar`, won't overwrite system tar)
  
        brew install https://raw.github.com/oschrenk/homebrew-dupes/edbc2b464d0bf4420508297418481178299f420a/libarchive.rb

### Ben's notes

Forked Carl's repo, and it sort of worked out of the box. Tweaked 
office 12.04 release: 

 - Downloading 12.04 final release. (Today as of this writing)
 - Checking MD5 to make sure it is the right version
 - Added a few more checks for external dependencies, mkisofs
 - Removed wget, and used curl to reduce dependencies
 - Added more output to see what is going on
 - Still designed to work on Mac OS X :)
    ... though it should work for Linux systems too (maybe w/ a bit of porting)

### Carl's original README

Decided I wanted to learn how to make a vagrant base box.

Let's target Precise Pangolin since it should be releasing soon, I said.

Let's automate everything, I said.

Let's do it all on my macbook, I said.

Woo.