System update going wrong and first steps with VirtualBox

Today was the day I would perform some major system updates. The major system updates (read: toolchain etc...) were all updated without a problem.

But there were also updates for Qt and KDE waiting to be installed. And for a moment I forgot that I have my system set up to compile everything with as much debug information as possible. Installing most updates goes without a problem untill the dreadfull Qt Webkit package.

This package already failed multiple times in the past (I still haven't learned). The reason is that this package is awefully big. One giant enormouse stupendously large library. And with debuggin information, you can guess what a limit of 2GB of ram will do... crash of course. It is not possible to build Qt Webkit on a normal computer when you want to have debugging information in it. I would love to see this package being split up in managable parts.

Rebooting and not starting any X server, restarting the build of Qt Webkit and installing it works ok. So, now the rest of the system is busy updating.

This of course halted my plans to write some chapters for the user manual of the Static Code Quality plugin.

But now that I'm back home, I have another computer and I'm now starting to experiment with VirtualBox.
First steps are rough, but that's just my learning process.

First guest OS: debian. WTF!!! This is 2010 and this thing can't even easily install a desktop environment?
Maybe I'm doing something wrong, but my first experiences with Debian are very bad. (I use Gentoo, and most people say that it's too difficult. Well, Debian is 10x more difficult than Gentoo).