[Mageia-discuss] Mageia-discuss Digest, Vol 10, Issue 8

Doug Laidlaw laidlaws at hotkey.net.au
Fri Jun 3 12:09:32 CEST 2011


On Fri, 3 Jun 2011 08:00:02 PM mageia-discuss-request at mageia.org wrote:
> urpmi virtualbox
> 
>      (I took note of all the packages there were going to be installed 
> and manually installed everything but virtualbox, virtualbox-dkms and 
> virtualbox-doc
> 
> Downloaded the current VB packages, including the extension pack
> 
> Ran urpmi virtualbox*rpm, but it complained about python 2.6, so I did a 
> symlink to the 2.7 version
> Ran urpmi virtualbox*rpm, but it complained about libcrypto, so I 
> created another symlink to the 1.1.0 version
> ran urpmi --allow-force, to allow me to select Y to install package anyway.
> 
> At that point, it compiled the vboxdrv and I was able to install the 
> extension pack.
> 
> Doug

I have the extension pack installed, but it doesn't give me access to USB 
devices as it should.  After following Dave's advice, it is no different.

Symlinks are usually disregarded by rpm, but if you are going to use --force, 
that doesn't matter.

I will stick with dual-booting; it is a lot faster to start up and to run.  
The time taken in rebooting is soon made up.

Doug Laidlaw.


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