Installing VB on 9.10

Ian Coetzee ubuntu at iancoetzee.za.net
Mon Nov 9 12:02:10 UTC 2009


forgot to include the list address in my reply (see below)...

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 1:48 PM, Allen Meyers <texas.chef94 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Ian:
>> Thanks and I thought I was there with the update which went fine. Then
>> install produced this
>> allen at allen-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox
>> Reading package lists... Done
>> Building dependency tree
>> Reading state information... Done
>> Package virtualbox 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 has no installation candidate
>> allen at allen-desktop:~$
>
> what happens when you press <tab> <tab> (<tab> being the <Tab> button
> to the left of the <Q> button) after you entered 'sudo apt-get install
> virtualbox' but before you press <enter> (so it shows you an
> autocomplete list of packages starting with virtualbox)
>
> what is the output of 'cat /etc/apt/sources.list'?
>
> Regards
> Ian




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