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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)
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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)
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@OP - pacman is your friend.
$ pacman -Ssq virtualbox
Last edited by graysky (2012-09-23 15:31:13)
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Wow, that's a long way to figure out 'virtual' packages, when this works just fine:
$ pacman -Ss virtual
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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.
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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.
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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.
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@karol - Yeah, that was from memory on my ipad. Edited my post.
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@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.
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Still like 'pacman -Ss virtualbox' better - gives more context.
Last edited by jdarnold (2012-09-23 15:55:08)
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