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Computer Software => Linux => Topic started by: tickmike on July 19, 2009, 01:43:03 PM

Title: Problems Upgrading VirtualBox.
Post by: tickmike on July 19, 2009, 01:43:03 PM: I tried to upgrade VB to the latest using this 'Mandriva Linux VirtualBox-3.0.2_49928_mdv2009.1-1.i586.rpm ' as I could not see one for PCLinuxOS .
Trying to install it with KPackage ,I get

error: Failed dependencies:
   python-base >= 2.6 is needed by VirtualBox-3.0.2_49928_mdv2009.1-1.i586
   libpython2.6.so.1.0 is needed by VirtualBox-3.0.2_49928_mdv2009.1-1.i586
   libstdc++.so.6(GLIBCXX_3.4.9) is needed by VirtualBox-3.0.2_49928_mdv2009.1-1.i586
   rtld(GNU_HASH) is needed by VirtualBox-3.0.2_49928_mdv2009.1-1.i586
   rpmlib(PayloadIsLzma) <= 4.4.6-1 is needed by VirtualBox-3.0.2_49928_mdv2009.1-1.i586

These are not in Synaptic !. so how do I get these?.

Another file on the Sun web site was 'VirtualBox-3.0.2-OSE.tar.bz2' But I cannot open it.

Help please.

Note . VirtualBox in Synaptic does not support USB, so that's why I have to use the ones from Sun.
Title: Re: Problems Upgrading VirtualBox.
Post by: roseway on July 19, 2009, 03:11:41 PM: There are several possibilities on the VB downloads page, (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) including one for PCLinuxOS 2007. If that doesn't work, then the 'All Distributions' version comes as an installable binary (.run) which might work.

I'm afraid I have no recent experience of VB, so I can't really help, but I rather think that it would be advisable to uninstall your current version before trying to install one of these new ones.
Title: Re: Problems Upgrading VirtualBox.
Post by: tickmike on July 19, 2009, 10:39:58 PM: Quote from: roseway on July 19, 2009, 03:11:41 PM
There are several possibilities on the VB downloads page, (http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads) including one for PCLinuxOS 2007. If that doesn't work, then the 'All Distributions' version comes as an installable binary (.run) which might work.

I'm afraid I have no recent experience of VB, so I can't really help, but I rather think that it would be advisable to uninstall your current version before trying to install one of these new ones.

I'm on PCLinuxOS 2009.2 now :'( the one above I had installed about two years ago but it's been updated many times since then and you cannot go back to that because of how it works now..
I normally uninstall first with synaptic.
I will try Google for the missing files.
Thanks.
Title: Re: Problems Upgrading VirtualBox.
Post by: tickmike on July 19, 2009, 11:12:06 PM: I will take it all back, the one on the download page for PCLinuxOS 2007 does work. ;D

They have updated it but not changed the PCLinuxOS 2007 to PCLinuxOS 2009 which I thought it was still the old one :'(.

I have installed it ok, I have a problem with the mouse freezing, but I will not let that beat me as I will get it sorted. ;)
Title: Re: Problems Upgrading VirtualBox.
Post by: roseway on July 20, 2009, 06:26:17 AM: I saw it was version 3.0.2 but I didn't know if it would work with PCLOS 2009. :)