Ran into an issue installing aegir

Hello. Really excited to start playing with Aegir. Have it installed but not sure if i fouled something up.

When i got to the part in manual installation where i log in as "aegir" user i got an error that aegir didn't have permission to write to the relevant library:

aegir@antiacus-desktop:~$ drush dl --destination=/var/aegir/.drush provision-6.x-2.0 Drush needs to download a library from [error] http://download.pear.php.net/package/Console_Table-1.1.3.tgz in order to function, and the attempt to download this file automatically failed because you do not have permission to write to the library directory /usr/share/php/drush/lib. To continue you will need to manually download the package from http://download.pear.php.net/package/Console_Table-1.1.3.tgz, extract it, and copy the directory into your /usr/share/php/drush/lib directory.

So i did this:

root@antiacus-desktop:~# sudo chgrp -R www-data /usr/share/php/drush/lib root@antiacus-desktop:~# sudo chmod -R 770 /usr/share/php/drush/lib

Then i made sure my normal log in was also a part of the www-data group. Anyway, i tried again as aegir and it installed it fine for me.

Which leads me to my next question :)

When i try to install a platform i get this:

install from terminal using drush: aegir@antiacus-desktop:~$ drush dl drupal Project drupal (7.28) downloaded to /var/aegir/drupal-7.28. [success] Project drupal contains: [success] - 3 profiles: standard, minimal, testing - 4 themes: seven, stark, garland, bartik - 47 modules: drupal_system_listing_compatible_test, drupal_system_listing_incompatible_test, locale, blog, update, comment, system, search, rdf, image, aggregator, file, dashboard, menu, php, overlay, filter, dblog, help, simpletest, translation, contact, taxonomy, forum, text, number, options, list, field_sql_storage, field, poll, shortcut, syslog, path, tracker, openid, book, profile, user, trigger, toolbar, block, node, color, contextual, field_ui, statistics

Then i go into the aegir ui and create platform and get this error when verify fails:

The directory /var/aegir/drupal-7.28. does not contain a valid Drupal installation Drush could not bootstrap this platform. Please check the platform directory exists and is readable.

I tried it with and without the . at the end of the path and get the same error.

Thanks for any help!