[SOLVED] VirtualBox Additions Package Missing?

BM · 2012-09-23 11:07:24

Hi all,

Following the VirtualBox section of the wiki here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vi … nux_guests - it directs me to install the following packages:

pacman -S virtualbox-guest-additions

However, I just get a message saying the package isn't found (I can't find it under "packages" on the arch website either), some googling suggested:

pacman -S virtualbox-archlinux-additions

However, that package is also 'not found'. As far as I know, I have the following repositories enabled:

* Testing
* Core
* Extra
* Community
* Community-Testing
* Testing

The wiki says not to install the default VirtualBox additions from VirtualBox. Any suggestions on where to find the VirtualBox additions package?

Regards,
Ben.

Last edited by BM (2012-09-23 13:33:05)

karol · 2012-09-23 11:32:08

The was a namechange: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php … 0#p1164040

Edit: Damn it! There was another name change: it's virtualbox-guest-iso now.

Last edited by karol (2012-09-23 11:33:28)

graysky · 2012-09-23 12:12:01

@OP - pacman is your friend.

$ pacman -Ssq virtualbox

Last edited by graysky (2012-09-23 15:31:13)

jdarnold · 2012-09-23 12:27:40

Wow, that's a long way to figure out 'virtual' packages, when this works just fine:

$ pacman -Ss virtual

karol · 2012-09-23 12:45:16

jdarnold wrote:

Wow, that's a long way to figure out 'virtual' packages, when this works just fine:
$ pacman -Ss virtual

You're wrong, graysky was close, but I prefer to use it with the '-q' switch. Compare the output of

pacman -Ssq | grep virtual

with one from your suggestion.

BM · 2012-09-23 13:23:55

Thanks all.

I did see the guest ISO package that was mentioned, however I thought that may be the one that the wiki was telling me not to install.

Thanks for everybody's help.

Regards,
Ben.

karol · 2012-09-23 13:44:41

The description of virtualbox-guest-iso package: 'The official VirtualBox Guest Additions ISO image' seems to fit.
If it indeed worked, please update the wiki.

graysky · 2012-09-23 15:31:45

@karol - Yeah, that was from memory on my ipad. Edited my post.

karol · 2012-09-23 15:41:31

graysky wrote:

@karol - Yeah, that was from memory on my ipad. Edited my post.

Errrr ... I was arguing that the 'grep' part was helpful.
'pacman -Ss' searches the whole output of 'pacman -Si' so you can get a ton of totally unrelated hits. '--quiet' filters most of it out, but you can grep to make sure.

jdarnold · 2012-09-23 15:54:56

Still like 'pacman -Ss virtualbox' better - gives more context.

Last edited by jdarnold (2012-09-23 15:55:08)

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