pacman not finding virtualbox-ose?

5x5 · 2007-12-16 12:45:24

I am fairly new to Linux and VERY new to Arch but so far, I haven't had any problems that I couldn't solve. I am especially enjoying using pacman. I'm really surprised at how powerful & easy to use it is. However, I am having a problem trying to install virtualbox-ose from the repositories. I looked it up and it says it's available from the community repo (which I do have enabled) and it says it was just updated in Oct. but when I 'pacman -Ss virtualbox-ose' it's not found in the db. I have also done -Sy and -Syu to make sure everything is synced. All I can find so far is virtualbox-modules.
I'm really sorry if this is a no-brainer and I'm asking a stupid question. I love virtualbox, tho, and can't wait to try out the newest eLive cd so I'm hoping someone can point me in the right direction. :-)

Many thks,
5x5

Allan · 2007-12-16 13:07:07

Have you tried changing to a different mirror?

5x5 · 2007-12-16 13:23:29

No, I haven't. I assumed (maybe incorrectly) that mirrors were identical in their contents. Is this not the case? I'll try changing that right now and see if that solves it.

Thx for the suggestion, Allan. :-)

Update:

Well, I've tried 3 other mirrors and no luck. Just not showing up. I know I can d'load the source from the virtualbox website but I'm not sure I'm ready to try to install something like that manually.

Updatex2:
Ok. Duh. I'm running 64 bit and virtualbox only runs on i686. :-( It's all there in the i686 directories although I'm not sure why virtualbox-modules is available in the x86_64 directories. That's a mystery.
Sorry for wasting forum space and people's time but thx for the help!

Carrie
(5x5)

Last edited by 5x5 (2007-12-16 14:02:00)

bender02 · 2007-12-16 15:06:28

If you don't mind running virtualbox_bin instead, that one runs fine on x86_64, and it's in the aur.

5x5 · 2007-12-16 20:56:04

bender02 wrote:

If you don't mind running virtualbox_bin instead, that one runs fine on x86_64, and it's in the aur.

I don't mind running it at all if it's basically the same operation. Do I need to know or do anything specifically different with the bin file as opposed to the normal package?
By the way, thanks so much for the heads-up!

Allan · 2007-12-16 22:06:15

5x5 wrote:

No, I haven't. I assumed (maybe incorrectly) that mirrors were identical in their contents. Is this not the case?

I theory they are all identical. Sometimes a mirror dies and takes a while to be corrected... It is always worth a try.

bender02 · 2007-12-16 23:50:14

5x5 wrote:

I don't mind running it at all if it's basically the same operation. Do I need to know or do anything specifically different with the bin file as opposed to the normal package?

The -ose version is open source, GPL licence; whereas -bin is closed source, different licence, more features. See http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Editions

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#1 2007-12-16 12:45:24

pacman not finding virtualbox-ose?

#2 2007-12-16 13:07:07

Re: pacman not finding virtualbox-ose?

#3 2007-12-16 13:23:29

Re: pacman not finding virtualbox-ose?

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Re: pacman not finding virtualbox-ose?

#5 2007-12-16 20:56:04

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#6 2007-12-16 22:06:15

Re: pacman not finding virtualbox-ose?

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