VirtualBox on F9

Gerry Tool gerrytool at gmail.com
Wed Apr 16 13:00:44 UTC 2008


On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 6:33 AM, Dejan Čabrilo <dcabrilo at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone succeeded in installing VirtualBox on F9 Beta?  If so, a
>  > short description of how to accomplish that would be appreciated.
>
>  I used F8 rpm from VirtualBox. It complained about
>  missing /lib/libcrypto.so.6, so I created a symlink (I was hoping to
>  find a -compat package or something like that, but no luck).
>
>  ln -s libcrypto.so.0.9.8g /lib/libcrypto.so.6
>
>  Since, rpm still complained about the missing file, I installed
>  VirtualBox with:
>
>  rpm -ivh --nodeps VirtualBox-1.5.6_28266_fedora8-1.i586.rpm
>
>  Works perfectly well now on the latest rawhide (i.e. F9 Beta).
>
>  Dejan
>
Thanks, Dejan.

Your prescription worked perfectly - once I installed kernel-devel.

I haven't tried it yet, but the installation completed just fine.

Gerry




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