Button Box....

[Joseph]

Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 08:44 -0500, Joseph wrote:
>> I wonder why the install program doesn't add an icon in the Applications 
>> menu during the install?
> 
> I have one under Applications > System Tools. Did you follow the
> instructions https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox ?
> 
> 


I just did...   to be sure.  Here's what I get in the terminal:

ragweed at ragweed-den:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-source
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
virtualbox-ose-source is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
   libflashsupport linux-headers-2.6.24-15-generic classpath-gtkpeer
   classpath-common cacao xaw3dg classpath linux-headers-2.6.24-15
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
Suggested packages:
   bridge-utils
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   virtualbox-ose
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 6366kB of archives.
After this operation, 20.7MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe virtualbox-ose 1.5.6-dfsg-6ubuntu1 [6366kB]
Fetched 6366kB in 42s (149kB/s)
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose.
(Reading database ... 242116 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) ...
Installing new version of config file /etc/init.d/vboxdrv ...
  * Starting VirtualBox host networking...                                [ OK ]
  * Starting VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv
  * No suitable module for running kernel found.

ragweed at ragweed-den:~$ sudo module-assistent prepare
sudo: module-assistent: command not found
ragweed at ragweed-den:~$ sudo module-assistant prepare
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24-18-rt
apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.24-18-rt
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
   libflashsupport linux-headers-2.6.24-15-generic classpath-gtkpeer
   classpath-common cacao xaw3dg classpath linux-headers-2.6.24-15
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   linux-headers-2.6.24-18-rt
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1151kB of archives.
After this operation, 12.3MB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main linux-headers-2.6.24-18-rt 2.6.24-18.32 [1151kB]
Fetched 1151kB in 12s (92.8kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package linux-headers-2.6.24-18-rt.
(Reading database ... 242669 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking linux-headers-2.6.24-18-rt (from .../linux-headers-2.6.24-18-rt_2.6.24-18.32_i386.deb) ...
Setting up linux-headers-2.6.24-18-rt (2.6.24-18.32) ...
Creating symlink...
apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
   libflashsupport linux-headers-2.6.24-15-generic classpath-gtkpeer
   classpath-common cacao xaw3dg classpath linux-headers-2.6.24-15
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Done!
ragweed at ragweed-den:~$ sudo module-assistant update

Updated infos about 86 packages
ragweed at ragweed-den:~$ sudo module-assistant unpack virtualbox-ose
Extracting the package tarball, /usr/src/virtualbox-ose.tar.bz2, please wait...
ragweed at ragweed-den:~$ sudo module-assistant auto-install virtualbox-ose

Updated infos about 1 packages
Getting source for kernel version: 2.6.24-18-rt
Kernel headers available in /usr/src/linux
Creating symlink...
Couldn't create the /usr/src/linux symlink!
apt-get install build-essential
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
build-essential is already the newest version.
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
   libflashsupport linux-headers-2.6.24-15-generic classpath-gtkpeer
   classpath-common cacao xaw3dg classpath linux-headers-2.6.24-15
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Done!
unpack
Extracting the package tarball, /usr/src/virtualbox-ose.tar.bz2, please wait...
"/usr/share/modass/overrides/virtualbox-ose-source" build KVERS=2.6.24-18-rt KSRC=/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-18-rt 
KDREV=2.6.24-18.32 kdist_image
Done with /usr/src/virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-18-rt_1.5.6-dfsg-6ubuntu1+2.6.24-18.32_i386.deb .
dpkg -Ei /usr/src/virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-18-rt_1.5.6-dfsg-6ubuntu1+2.6.24-18.32_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-18-rt.
(Reading database ... 249764 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-18-rt (from 
.../virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-18-rt_1.5.6-dfsg-6ubuntu1+2.6.24-18.32_i386.deb) ...
Setting up virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-18-rt (1.5.6-dfsg-6ubuntu1+2.6.24-18.32) ...
  * Reloading kernel event manager...                                     [ OK ]

ragweed at ragweed-den:~$ $ ls -l /dev/vboxdrv
bash: $: command not found
ragweed at ragweed-den:~$ ls -l /dev/vboxdrv
ls: cannot access /dev/vboxdrv: No such file or directory
ragweed at ragweed-den:~$



Sooooo, without this section working, I don't have a program and I can't go on.

Joseph