VirtualBox-OSE from RPM Fusion cannot be installed on F14

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Thu Nov 4 21:00:35 UTC 2010


On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 1:17 AM, Manuel Escudero <Jmlevick at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> Has someone found a workaround for this problem:
>> >>
>> >> # yum install VirtualBox-OSE
>> >> Loaded plugins: presto, refresh-packagekit
>> >> Setting up Install Process
>> >> Resolving Dependencies
>> >> --> Running transaction check
>> >> ---> Package VirtualBox-OSE.x86_64 0:3.2.6-2.fc14 set to be installed
>> >> --> Processing Dependency: VirtualBox-OSE-kmod = 3.2.6 for package:
>> >> VirtualBox-OSE-3.2.6-2.fc14.x86_64
>> >> --> Processing Dependency: libpython2.6.so.1.0()(64bit) for package:
>> >> VirtualBox-OSE-3.2.6-2.fc14.x86_64
>> >> --> Running transaction check
>> >> ---> Package VirtualBox-OSE.x86_64 0:3.2.6-2.fc14 set to be installed
>> >> --> Processing Dependency: libpython2.6.so.1.0()(64bit) for package:
>> >> VirtualBox-OSE-3.2.6-2.fc14.x86_64
>> >> ---> Package akmod-VirtualBox-OSE.x86_64 0:3.2.6-1.fc14.2 set to be
>> >> installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution
>> >> Error: Package: VirtualBox-OSE-3.2.6-2.fc14.x86_64
>> >> (rpmfusion-free-updates) Requires: libpython2.6.so.1.0()(64bit)
>> >>  You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
>> >>  You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest
>> >> #
>> >
>> > Possibly this bug:
>> >
>> > https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1465
>> >
>> > (which has some workarounds in it)
>>
>> Thanks, Kevin, but it seems that you are not pointing to the right bug
>> report; see the following one:
>>
>> https://bugzilla.rpmfusion.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423
>>
>> That is really a shame that they did not fix this bug before the
>> release of F14, specially because they have been aware of the reported
>> bug for quite a while.
>
> Humm, if you try with Oracle's version of Vbox?
> Install it by following this command list trough your terminal as root:
> 1.- su -c 'wget
> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo
> -O /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo; sed -i "s,enabled=0,enabled=1,g"
> /etc/yum.repos.d/virtualbox.repo'
> 2.- su -c 'yum update; yum install -y VirtualBox-3.2 dkms gcc'
> 3.- sudo yum -y install kernel-headers kernel-devel
> 4.- su -c '/etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup'
> 5.- su -c 'usermod -G vboxusers -a username'
> (Replace "username" with your real username)
> Good Luck!

Thanks, Manuel. I will do as you advise.

Paul


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