Genymotion 2.7.2 on Ubuntu 14.04 64 bit

Question

I just installed Virtualbox, downloaded genymotion-2.7.2-linux_x64.bin and tried chmod +x and chmod 777 on it before trying ./genymotion-2.7.2-linux_x64.bin within the folder. I get permission denied error as given below

bash: ./genymotion-2.7.2-linux_x64.bin: Permission denied

I even tried sudo before ./genymotion-2.7.2-linux_x64

To test my luck, used sudo bash and ran ./genymotion-2.7.2-linux_x64 as root. Still, no luck.

The Genymotion website says Ubuntu 15.10 (Wily Werewolf) or above (64bit) . I however have 14.04.

I did try other guides. But nothing was referring to 2.7.2 of Genymotion with 64 bit 14.04

I have VirtualBox installed already.

Answer 1

It may be a problem of your Linux OS and Genymotion compatibility, genymotion 2.7.2 is not compatible with Ubuntu 14.04.

Even after you installed the bin file, if genymotion still can't work normally, you have to add a PPA.

Open terminal and type this:

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gcc-4.9 g++-4.9