yaourt -S virtualbox_bin : not working

windowbreaker · 2008-08-13 15:48:34

So I run

yaourt -S virtualbox_bin

Simple enough, right? Wrong.
I get the message

==> Retrieving Sources...
==> ERROR: VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_x86.run was not found in the build directory and is not a URL.
Error: Makepkg was unable to build virtualbox_bin package.

I downloaded VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_x86.run and placed in in my current directory - didn't work.
I looked for a virtualbox_bin directory under the /var/abs tree, not found.
I did updatedb and ran 'locate virtualbox' to see if I could find some temporary build directory to place the file in - not found.

Where the hell am I supposed to place the .run file for yaourt to find it????

wonder · 2008-08-13 15:57:00

download manualy from aur the build arhive and place VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_x86.run inside the directory. after that run makepkg -i

windowbreaker · 2008-08-13 16:03:20

So is virtualbox_bin a package that cannot be built using yaourt? The whole reason I started using yaourt was to not have to build AUR pkg's manually. I can understand why they can't include the .bin file in the AUR. I'm just curious if I'm doing something wrong or if packages like virtualbox_bin and vmware pkgs - that can't include certain files, just cannot be installed using yaourt.

kett · 2008-08-13 16:40:57

It should work. I'd imagine it's a problem with the PKGBUILD. If you just want virtualbox_bin, add the archlinuxfr repository to pacman. Then you can install virtualbox_bin using pacman.

Edit: When I said it should work, I mean that it would definitely be possible to install virtualbox_bin through yaourt. Not necessarily that the current PKGBUILD in the aur works.

Last edited by kett (2008-08-13 16:43:49)

wonder · 2008-08-13 16:43:10

you can't include such a huge file. the link for download is not static. is dinamic generatated and thats why cannot be use in source(). this thing happen after virtualbox team put download on sun servers

kclive18 · 2008-08-13 17:41:37

Don't use yaourt to build virtualbox_bin, just download the tarball off the AUR and extract it. Then download the 1.6.4 .run file off of virtualbox.org (for linux i386 or x86_64, depending on what you're using), and place it in the directory created from extracting the tarball. After that, cd to that same dir, makepkg, and then pacman -U the pkg.tar.gz it spits out. This is how I do it whenever there's a new version of vbox out on the AUR.

ighea · 2008-08-13 18:09:00

We can give our thanks to the Sun Microsystems for this fuck up too! :I

windowbreaker · 2008-08-13 19:59:11

I just built it from AUR using makepkg. It's working great. I got the feature I was after, which was the integrated mouse/keyboard - I hated the keyboard capture function.

Thanks - and a special thanks to all the maintainers of AUR software, you guys are great.

kalpik · 2008-08-14 00:38:47

You can place the virtualbux.run file in /tmp/yaourt-tmp-<username>/virtualbox folder

kclive18 · 2008-08-14 13:53:00

Or you could probably insert a wget line in the PKGBUILD file so that it dl's the .run file from sun before starting the build.

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yaourt -S virtualbox_bin : not working

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