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shauder

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Registered: 2010-05-18

Posts: 21

Virtual Machine

Hey guys I am new to linux, sorta, and have got Arch set up with XFCE4 and Compiz.  I got a good amount of configurations how I want them but the next thing I want to do is set up VirtualBox.  I have been trying to google a fairly good tutorial to fallow but I am having no luck.  Could anyone help point me in the right direction?

The error I get is but plenty of other things I get with the pacman tool work perfectly

pacman -S virtualbox-ose
virtualbox-ose package not found, searching for group...
error: 'virtualbox-ose': not found in sync db

Last edited by shauder (2010-05-18 07:15:17)

karoshi

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From: Marburg

Registered: 2008-02-26

Posts: 182

Re: Virtual Machine

Did you take a look at ArchLinux Wiki yet?

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Virtual_box

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shauder

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Registered: 2010-05-18

Posts: 21

Re: Virtual Machine

That doesn't work for me, and I can't figure out why.

ngoonee

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Registered: 2009-03-17

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Re: Virtual Machine

Neither can anyone of us if you don't tell us what you did/didn't try.

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shauder

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Registered: 2010-05-18

Posts: 21

Re: Virtual Machine

pacman -S virtualbox-ose
virtualbox-ose package not found, searching for group...
error: 'virtualbox-ose': not found in sync db

Plenty of other things sync fine

austin.rbn

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Registered: 2010-01-23

Posts: 77

Re: Virtual Machine

I'm going to guess that you're using a 64-bit system? In which case, I suggest that you have a look at the AUR. Of course, all of this is explained on the wiki page for VirtualBox, which you should probably take a look at. There are also many forum threads on why there is no x86_64 package for VirtualBox.

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shauder

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Registered: 2010-05-18

Posts: 21

Re: Virtual Machine

I'm going to guess that you're using a 64-bit system? In which case, I suggest that you have a look at the AUR. Of course, all of this is explained on the wiki page for VirtualBox, which you should probably take a look at. There are also many forum threads on why there is no x86_64 package for VirtualBox.

Exactly right haha thanks.  The information about x86_64 missing is after that command.  Didn't read too far into it with even the get command just not finding the package.