On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 06:19 PM Robert Benjamin wrote:
On 3/20/2012 2:01 PM, Dennis Gallien wrote:
On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 01:50 PM Mark Misulich wrote:
On Tue, 2012-03-20 at 11:50 -0400, Robert Benjamin wrote:
Installed virtualbox 4.1x and it seemed OK. Clicked the icon and got message to be part of user group vboxusers .Did that OK I think and re-booted and now clicking the icon does absolutely nothing at all. Can you help? Newbie here. Thanks. Bob
Hi, did you install the virtualbox rpm with yast from the opensuse repositories, or did you download the rpm directly from virtualbox? The opensuse rpm of virtualbox doesn't work well, so try getting the one from virtualbox.
I installed virtualbox from add/remove software. Should I remove it from there the same way I installed it and start over? I don't mind doing that if it's a good idea. Then I can install it from the link below. Correct?
Try uninstalling the rpm from the opensuse repositories with yast if that is what you did. Then go here and download the rpm for your version of opensuse.
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
The rpm will be found in your /home/yourusername/Downloads file after the download is complete. When you find the rpm in the path I gave above using Dolphin, click on the rpm icon and yast will install it for you.
Once it is installed, hopefully things will work better for you.
Alternatively, there is a virtualbox repository that you can add with YaST to install vbox. I don't know why, but the 11.4 package is also used for 12.1, and they share using the 11.4 repo (i.e., there is no 12.1 repo). The url is:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/11.4/
As Mark posted, if you download the .rpm file from the Oracle vbox site, when you click on it in the file manager YaST will automatically install it. Note however that it is possible that the old package will remain installed, so you want to uninstall it with YaST first before doing the new install. If you add the repository, then run YaST Software Management, again you'll want to first uninstall the package you have. Then at the Finish screen, go back and install the new package being careful to select the version from the Oracle repository. Btw, you want to reply to the mailing list rather than personal addreses so that the thread remains complete. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org