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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

virtualbox_bin 1.5.6-1: makepkg error

Hi, everybody,

I tried to do the following:

(1) Download the tarball from http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9753
(2) Unpack the tarball into a working directory (~/virtualbox_bin)
(3) Put a manually downloaded file VirtualBox_1.5.6-1_Linux_x86.run into /var/abs/local/virtualbox-bin directory
(4) Run makepkg in my working directory (~/virtualbox_bin)

The error is:

Missing dependencies:
-> patch
Error: Could not resolve dependencies.

The patch (vboxnet.patch) is present in the ~/virtualbox_bin directory (extracted from the tarball).

What am I doing wrong?

tomk

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From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: virtualbox_bin 1.5.6-1: makepkg error

If makepkg detects a missing dependency, it is because that dependency is specified in the PKGBUILD. Check it again, and make sure you have all dependencies installed. Alternatively, makepkg can install the dependencies for you - man makepkg has all the details.

Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: virtualbox_bin 1.5.6-1: makepkg error

All the dependencies listed in the Package Details:

e2fsprogs
libidl2
libstdc++5
libxslt
qt3
sdl

are satisfied (I did manual recheck).

The error is:

Missing dependencies:
-> patch
Error: Could not resolve dependencies.

Looks like it's unhappy with patch.

Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

Posts: 11,400

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Re: virtualbox_bin 1.5.6-1: makepkg error

patch is a makedepend so you will need to install it.  If you are build packages, it is best to install all of the base-devel group (pacman -S base-devel)

Last edited by Allan (2008-04-07 10:29:40)

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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

Re: virtualbox_bin 1.5.6-1: makepkg error

Thank you very much, Allan! It didn't occur to me that patch might be a utility ...