VirtualBox 1.4.0 was released yesterday, so I thought I would write a very quick guide to installing it in Ubuntu Feisty. My previous post detailed downloading the file directly and several troubleshooting steps. If you run into a problem, check that post out.
Add VirtualBox Repository
Open up /etc/apt/sources.list (with sudo gedit) and add this line:
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian feisty non-free
Add the VirtualBox Public Key
wget http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/innotek.asc sudo apt-key add innotek.asc
Update Apt and Install
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox
If you already installed VirtualBox, you may just need a simple
sudo apt-get upgrade
after adding the repo and updating apt.
Troubleshooting
If you run into a error when starting VirtualBox, execute a quick:
sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup
and everything should be fine.
Again, look at the previous post if you have a problem.
June 6th, 2007 at 4:06 pm
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September 2nd, 2007 at 2:54 am
“and everything should be fine”.
Or not.
/var/log/vbox-install.log says
cp: missing destination file operand after `/tmp/vbox.0/Module.symvers’
Made a symlink manually and now it works with some problems, but this is annoying.