Installing VB on 9.10

[Ian Coetzee]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:22 PM, Allen Meyers <texas.chef94 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have tried after download both:
> sudo apt-get -f install virtualbox-3.0
> sudo dpkg -i Downloads/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic_i386.deb
> allen at allen-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get -f install virtualbox-3.0
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> Package virtualbox-3.0 is not available, but is referred to by another package.
> This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
> is only available from another source
> E: Package virtualbox-3.0 has no installation candidate
> allen at allen-desktop:~$ sudo dpkg -i
> Downloads/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic_i386.deb
> dpkg: error processing
> Downloads/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic_i386.deb
> (--install):
>  cannot access archive: No such file or directory
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  Downloads/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic_i386.deb
> allen at allen-desktop:~$
> Please advise

Have you tried doing a 'sudo apt-get update' and then 'sudo apt-get
install virtualbox' (without the -3.0) ?

That worked for me.

>>root at ian-desktop:~# apt-get install virtualbox
>>Reading package lists... Done
>>Building dependency tree
>>Reading state information... Done
>>Note, selecting virtualbox-3.0 instead of virtualbox
>>virtualbox-3.0 is already the newest version.


Regards
Ian