Guest CheeseOnToast-YUM Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 Hi, Today I downloaded VirtualBox for Mandriva [Mandriva 2007.1 i386/quote] from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads but I don't know how to install it. Is there anyone who have sucessfully managed to install it on their system? Is there any additional software I need for an easy install? Can you give me easy instructions on how to do this? Sorry if my question sounds abit confusing (I'm tired!) :D Thanks in advance, CheeseOnToast. [moved from Software by spinynorman - welcome aboard :)] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 (edited) Set up your urpmi software sources, be sure you have main and contrib. Open a terminal and type: su urpmi virtualbox Make sure when you get asked to choose the kernel-source version that matches your running kernel which you can find out by typing: uname -r in a terminal. Mandriva 2007.1 Spring comes with VirtualBox (OSE version). No need to download packages from the virtualbox website, unless you want the commercial non-open version. http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualization_o...iva_2007_spring Edited June 22, 2007 by chris:b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest CheeseOnToast-YUM Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 Thanks for your help.. But, I'm using the free mandriva which doesn't have that much packages, I did a search in the Install, Remove & Update Software thingy for box in hope to find virtualbox but to no avail. So this is why I downloaded it off the VirtualBox website.. I tried the urpmi install but it says No package name "[name]", what should I do now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris:b Posted June 22, 2007 Report Share Posted June 22, 2007 Thanks for your help.. But, I'm using the free mandriva which doesn't have that much packages, I did a search in the Install, Remove & Update Software thingy for box in hope to find virtualbox but to no avail. So this is why I downloaded it off the VirtualBox website.. I tried the urpmi install but it says No package name "[name]", what should I do now? That's why I suggested: Set up your urpmi software sources, be sure you have main and contrib. MCC -> Software Management -> Select from where software packages ... -> button: "Add ..." or go to easyurpmi and add the sources: http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ You can search this forum for easyurpmi and software sources to get more hints about how to add sources. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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