On Saturday 15 May 2010 11:17:28 Stan Goodman wrote:
The package is: VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.8_6139_openSUSE111-1.x86_64.rpm. According to the VB download page this is suitable for both oS 11.1 and 11.2. The system is 11.2.
Installing VirtualBox is very easy, I have done it several times. This time, however, I failed to install the kernel sources first.
I installed the sources after being reminded by the installation, and tried again, only to be told that VirtualBox is already installed.
The answer to that seemed to be to uninstall it and install afresh, but instead I was told that there was nothing to uninstall. So it both is and isn't.
How to recover from this?
The problem that I had with VBox was that the OSE stuff kept getting installed in preference to downloaded version. I resolved it by removing all the OSE stuff and setting them to taboo. Then I installed the package and it worked fine. I think that you may be able to make use of the x11 and toolbox stuff from OSE, iirc. Hope that helps Eddie -- Delight thyself also in the Lord and He shall give thee the desires of thine heart. Psalm. 37:4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org