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cjmeyer

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Registered: 2010-07-15

Posts: 5

[SOLVED] Missing packages?

I am trying to install the VirtualBox OSE Additions via pacman but am having a problem.  I am using Xmission as my mirror and have run 'pacman -Syu' to make sure my system is up to date, but I can't find 'virtualbox-ose-additions'.  I get the following when searching for it...

[root@cyclone-vbox-test ~]# pacman -Ss virtualbox
community/libvirt 0.8.1-1
    API for controlling virtualization engines (openvz,kvm,qemu,virtualbox,xen,etc)
community/virtualbox-additions 3.2.6-1
    Guest additions for VirtualBox

As far as I know the package should be available: it is listed as a package at http://www.archlinux.org/packages/commu … additions/.

I have also tried running 'pacman -Syys virtualbox' but get the same as above.

Am I missing something?  Is it possible that 'virtualbox-ose-additions' has been removed somehow?  Or is this maybe just a mirror sync issue (seems odd as I know it was there earlier today)?

Last edited by cjmeyer (2010-07-16 17:13:44)

sand_man

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From: Australia

Registered: 2008-06-10

Posts: 2,164

Re: [SOLVED] Missing packages?

Are you running x86_64? There is no OSE version for 64bit in the official repos. I think Wonder has a repo which he hosts an OSE package of the 64bit version, but it is unofficial.
Otherwise you will need to install virtualbox_bin from AUR.

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cjmeyer

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Registered: 2010-07-15

Posts: 5

Re: [SOLVED] Missing packages?

Wow, yes...  That was exactly my mistake; I am running x86_64.