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#1 2009-04-21 22:41:42

cool_arrow
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Registered: 2009-01-21
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vitualbox installed from sun's site - want vbox from repos

I installed virtualbox from Arch's community repo and that has been working well.  However, recently a new version came out and this was indicated by my virtualbox app. on startup.  I went to the virtualbox site and installed that one instead of waiting for the community repo to be updated with the newer version (forgot that I used the community repo).  When I try to update my system now using pacan I get the following error after updates are downloaded from repos:
checking package integrity...
(49/49) checking for file conflicts                 [##############################################################] 100%
error: could not prepare transaction
error: failed to commit transaction (conflicting files)
virtualbox_bin: /etc/udev/rules.d/10-vboxdrv.rules exists in filesystem
Errors occurred, no packages were upgraded.

How do I correct this?  Should I simply uninstall virtualbox and reinstall from repo?  Any help is appreciated.

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#2 2009-04-21 23:40:34

sand_man
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From: Australia
Registered: 2008-06-10
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Re: vitualbox installed from sun's site - want vbox from repos

tsk tsk tsk
Shouldn't manually install programs like that.
You can try forcing the install "pacman -Sf pkgname"


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#3 2009-04-22 07:08:56

wonder
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From: Bucharest, Romania
Registered: 2006-07-05
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Re: vitualbox installed from sun's site - want vbox from repos

use that installer from virtualbox website and uninstall it and then install virtualbox_bin with pacman.

Last edited by wonder (2009-04-22 07:09:27)


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