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jordanwb

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-01

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VirtualBox installation, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do

I want to install VirtualBox PUEL and the instructions say this:

VirtualBox PUEL is available from the AUR.

Due to license restrictions, you must download the installer from Sun's website (see links below) and place it into the same directory as the PKGBUILD:

I don't understand how I'm supposed to know where to put the installer.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: VirtualBox installation, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do

nothing. ignore that message.
just extract tarball and run makepkg -i

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jordanwb

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-07-01

Posts: 151

Re: VirtualBox installation, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do

just extract tarball and run makepkg -i

Um uh what?

I ran this:

pacman -U virtualbox_bin.pkg.tar.gz

and it says "Cannot open package file"

firecat53

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From: Lake Stevens, WA, USA

Registered: 2007-05-14

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Re: VirtualBox installation, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do

Well, when I installed VB for the first time, I had to do just that: download the bin file from Sun for your platform .... find the directory where you either saved the PKGBUILD, if you downloaded it directly from the AUR, or where your package manager (like yaourt) saved the PKGBUILD (e.g. in /tmp/yaourt-user/.....), and move your saved bin file from Sun into that directory. Then it should work fine.

Good luck!
Scott

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whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: VirtualBox installation, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do

Well, when I installed VB for the first time, I had to do just that: download the bin file from Sun for your platform .... find the directory where you either saved the PKGBUILD, if you downloaded it directly from the AUR, or where your package manager (like yaourt) saved the PKGBUILD (e.g. in /tmp/yaourt-user/.....), and move your saved bin file from Sun into that directory. Then it should work fine.

Good luck!
Scott

I just downloaded the virtualbox_bin tarball from AUR and ran makepkg.

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tesjo

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Registered: 2007-11-30

Posts: 164

Re: VirtualBox installation, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do

just extract tarball and run makepkg -i

Um uh what?

I ran this:

pacman -U virtualbox_bin.pkg.tar.gz

and it says "Cannot open package file"

I would suggest looking at the aur section of the beginners guide

Last edited by tesjo (2008-09-12 01:12:30)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: VirtualBox installation, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do

next time read. we aren't here to write every step.

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php
search from virtualbox_bin. there you'll find a link to a Tarball.
here is it: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtu … bin.tar.gz
extract using tar xzf virtualbox_bin.tar.gz . then enter in the directory virtualbox_bin and run makepkg -i.
-i means than after compilation/creation of package will be install. if you want to install using pacman -U then be carefully to write the name of package corectly. if you can't, then use autocompletion from bash. hint -> use the TAB key

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