School Of Hard Knocks

I was trying to copy and paste from Ubuntu 16 and VMware workstation in Windows, and it didn't work. I generally SSH into the box using putty, so this usually isn't an issue, but today, I figured I may as well look into the issue. So, first I headed over to the vendor, where I found this KB: 2073803  which states: open-vm-tools-desktop package This optional package extends OVT with additional user-space programs and libraries to improve the interactive functionality of virtual machines. This package depends on X and therefore must be installed only when X is available. These features are enabled by this package: Enables resizing of the guest display to match host console window or the VMware Remote Console Window for vSphere Enables text copy and paste operation between host and guest UI (either direction) Enables drag and drop operation between guest and host (either direction) for the VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion products (not supported on vSphere)  ...

In the wake of the Amazon S3 outage of 2017 , I wanted to have something hosted on my own machine rather than relying on Trello (which relies on S3) for my kanban needs. After a bit of research, I found restyaboard which looked intresting (although their demo site was in Mandarin (I think?) after I logged in, go google translate!) I tried to use the auto installation script at http://restya.com/board/install#Installscript  but that failed on Ubuntu 12, 14 and 16 with various errors. I managed to talk to someone in live chat (which was neat for an open source product) but was redirected to sending an e-mail. (by the agent) I then attempted to install the pre-requisite software first and then used the installer which fared slightly better, but to no real success. Next I tried picking apart the installer script (Which started at line 226 when I looked at it) I found that there were more requirements than is listed (like GeoIP?), and installing the packages in this order (...