Installed VirtualBox - but where is it?

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Wed Apr 7 19:35:34 UTC 2010


On 04/05/2010 07:58 PM, Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
> The other day I used under Ubuntu 9.04 Synaptic to install VirtualBox OSE.
> The computer says, the installation has been successfully completed.
> Fine.
> Now, where am I supposed to look for it??
> I cannot find it anywhere under application,
> there is no icon or stuff like that on the desktop
> and when I try Alt+F2: VirtualBox (all different forms of spelling,
> capitalization I can think of),
> all I get is the error message "no such file or folder"
> * but Synaptic shows it to be installed.
> 
> So, ... where is it? How am I supposed to use software that "is not there"?

<http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&complete=0&q=help.ubuntu+%2Bvirtualbox&btnG=Search>

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox/Installation

Do you have virtualbox-ose installed, or just virtualbox-ose-source?

>From a terminal:
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose

That will pull in virtualbox-ose-source and virtualbox-ose-qt if they
are not already installed.








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