Installing VirtualBox on Hardy

Michael Hipp Michael at Hipp.com
Tue Jul 1 17:40:26 UTC 2008


I've read good things about VirtualBox so I'm hoping it will not have the many 
deficiencies of VMWare Server. (If there are other "free" server virtualization 
products worth trying, I'd like to hear of them.)

So, anyways, I'm trying to set up VirtualBox on a Hardy server so I can run an 
instance of W2k Server. I downloaded the .deb from VirtualBox.org? But when I 
attempt to install it it gives me:

# dpkg -i virtualbox_1.6.2-31466_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox.
(Reading database ... 19999 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking virtualbox (from virtualbox_1.6.2-31466_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox:
  virtualbox depends on libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0); however:
   Package libglib2.0-0 is not installed.
  virtualbox depends on libidl0; however:
   Package libidl0 is not installed.
  virtualbox depends on libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8-b); however:
   Package libqt3-mt is not installed.
  virtualbox depends on libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.10-1); however:
   Package libsdl1.2debian is not installed.
  virtualbox depends on libx11-6; however:
   Package libx11-6 is not installed.
  virtualbox depends on libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2); however:
   Package libxcursor1 is not installed.
  virtualbox depends on libxml2 (>= 2.6.27); however:
   Package libxml2 is not installed.
  virtualbox depends on libxslt1.1 (>= 1.1.20); however:
   Package libxslt1.1 is not installed.
  virtualbox depends on libxt6; however:
   Package libxt6 is not installed.
dpkg: error processing virtualbox (--install):
  dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
  virtualbox

But I don't want all that graphical X-Windows and Qt bloat as I don't plan to 
run any of it on this server (I'll be using the "headless" console). Is there 
any way to install this without having to resort to the "alternative" installer 
and compile a bunch of stuff. I really don't want development tools on this 
system either.

Thanks,
Michael




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