Problem installing virtualbox

[ahurd]

I am on 8.04. I install appropriate VB pkg using adept, which then shows VB installed, but .virtualbox directory and item in Kmenu do not appear. Can anyone help?

[MoonRise]

Re: Problem installing virtualbox

the ".virtualbox" directory probably will not be created until you run it. Try Alt-F2. In the run line type "VirtualBox" (without the quotes) and click on "Run". If it runs, then it is installed and since it ran (hope that it does), then the ".virtualbox" should get created.

[Snowhog]

Re: Problem installing virtualbox

VirtualBox User manual here.

[ahurd]

Re: Problem installing virtualbox

Moonrise: I get "could nor run the specified command". What now?

[ahurd]

Re: Problem installing virtualbox

SOLVED. Got it installed with sudo apt-get.
The program 'virtualbox' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
bash: virtualbox: command not found
albert@ALBERT:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
[sudo] password for albert:
E: Could not get lock /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (11 Resource temporarily unavailable)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), is another process using it?
albert@ALBERT:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Suggested packages:
bridge-utils virtualbox-ose-source
The following NEW packages will be installed:
virtualbox-ose
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 4 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6366kB of archives.
After this operation, 20.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose.
(Reading database ... 115699 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking virtualbox-ose (from .../virtualbox-ose_1.5.6-dfsg-6ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Setting up virtualbox-ose (1.5.6-dfsg-6ubuntu1) ...
* Starting VirtualBox host networking... [ OK ]
* Starting VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv [ OK ]

[MoonRise]

Re: Problem installing virtualbox

Great! Glad to hear. VirtualBox is a great little free app. Hope it stays that way. Have Fun!