VirtualBox on F9

[Scott Robbins]

On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:33:23PM +0200, Dejan Čabrilo 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).

Ah, interesting. That is helpful. (I couldn't make the symlink work
either, which is why I recommended the generic one.)  I didn't think of
trying nodeps.
Thank you.  (Continuing the broken thread headers...)  :)


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