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I'm trying to install the full version so I can have USB devices work
I get an error during install

It's a Mandriva 2010.X rpm and Mandriva has libpython2.6 whereas Mageia has libpython2.7
You could try making a symbolic from the installed version to the version Virtualbox expects, I'm not sure if it will work but worth a try.
Syntax is

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ln -s /usr/lib/"Mageia version" /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0

The "Mageia version" should be libpython2.7.so.1.0 but as I'm not at my Mageia box right now it's up to you to verify that.

I'm assuming I should run on a terminal
the result is

[mgarlo@localhost ~]$ ln -s /usr/lib/"Mageia version" /usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0
ln: failed to create symbolic link `/usr/lib/libpython2.6.so.1.0': Permission denied

mgarlo can't do that, only root can.

You can have USB support with the Mageia vbox packages. Install the extensions pack, which you would have to do even with a vbox package downloaded from the vbox web site:

http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch01.h ... installing

If you prefer to use a package from the vbox site, then uses the "all distributions" version.

Jim

I'm trying to move my Itunes on xp over here to my Mageia machine
My ipods don't play well with clementine
I'll try the OSE version as soon as my appliance finishes copying over

for the sake of discussion
how would I install the "All Distributions" version
I have it downloaded, but can't quite understand what to do with it
RPM faults out?

when I try to run a new machine
I get this error

not sure what to do in the RPM world
on synaptic I would run
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
stuff would happen & all would be well
instead


[mgarlo@localhost ~]$ sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
[sudo] password for mgarlo:
mgarlo is not in the sudoers file. This incident will be reported.
[mgarlo@localhost ~]$

Would try:

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su -
/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

I get
[root@localhost ~]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
-bash: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv: No such file or directory
[root@localhost ~]#

what about the DKMS package?
I don't find it in the package manager...

The DKMS-package can be found in Software Management in Mageia's Control Centre.
That is, if you have repositories configured properly. The DKMS-package has to be found in Core Release.

I must not be configured right
a search comes up with no results
how would I fix that

While you do a search, first check if both "View" and "Filter" boxes are selected for "All".
One can find those boxes on the left of the word "Find".

I was on with GUI
found & installed a couple that mentioned VB

same error on the VB

Which version of virtualbox are you trying to use? If you installed the Mageia virtualbox package, then all the packages that you need would have been installed as dependencies.

The package that is referred to on the VirtualBox web site is the dkms package - that's just dkms and nothing else. If you have installed dkms-vboxadditions, then you should remove it. That package is intended to be installed only in a Mageia guest system. (The same applies to the virtualbox-guest-additions package.)

Jim

I have the OSE version installed

when trying to open either a new machine I set up or an appliance I've imported I get the error asking me to install the DKMS package

All versions of virtualbox are now open source. I meant, did you install the Mageia virtualbox package from the repo, using Software Management in MCC? (The proprietary parts of virtualbox are in the Extensions Pack, which must be downloaded and installed separately, no matter which version of virtualbox you use.)

What is the output of this command, run as root:

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rpm -qa | grep virtualbox

To become root, enter in a terminal:

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su -

Jim

thanks Jim,
out put of
rpm -qa | grep virtualbox

virtualbox-4.0.6-4.mga1
virtualbox-doc-4.0.6-4.mga1
dkms-virtualbox-4.0.6-4.mga1

looks like the OSE version from the package manager to me

I had installed the extension pack 1st

Have you also installed the kernel-devel packages according to your running kernel?
For this i always install kernel-desktop-latest and kernel-desktop-devel-latest.
Then, as root, start again

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

and please post the output here.

doktor5000 wrote:Have you also installed the kernel-devel packages according to your running kernel?
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Then, as root, start again

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

and please post the output here.

a little slower please
For this i always install kernel-desktop-latest and kernel-desktop-devel-latest

How do I do this?

In software management, just install kernel-desktop-latest and kernel-desktop-devel-latest.
If you installed from a live-cd, it would be kernel-desktop586-latest and kernel-desktop586-devel-latest.

See the attached screenshot how that looks like...
And pay attention to the description of kernel-desktop-latest and kernel-desktop-devel-latest, to know what purpose they have.

thanks Dok
looks like I have all that stuff?

What about:

doktor5000 wrote:Then, as root, start again

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/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup

and please post the output here.

[root@localhost mgarlo]# /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
bash: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv: No such file or directory
[root@localhost mgarlo]#

'/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup' isn't gonna work with the virtualbox packages from the Mageia repos; that command is only useful if you don't use the rpms from the Mageia repos and use one of the upstream packages (rpm or .run).

Try re-installing virtualbox - run the following command as root:

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urpmi --replacepkgs virtualbox

Jim