Installing tar.bz2 help

[Patrick Doyle]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 12:59 PM, Edwin McGuire
<mcguiresmain at emypeople.com> wrote:
> Trying to install a newer version of VirtualBox that I have on a disk that
> came on (LinuxUser & Developer Magazine). VirtualBox-3.1.4-OSE.tar.bz2
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> I don't have Web access, only E-mail only .
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>  my ver. is VirtualBox 3.0.8_OSE r53138
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> Instructions in magazine say for Debian systems use:
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> $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox_3.1
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While I'm not an apt-get expert, I don't believe you can install
VirtualBox in this way.  Try something like this:

$ tar xjf /media/cdrom/VirtualBox-3.1.4-OSE.tar.bz2

Then cd into the directory that (hopefully, presumably, probably
called "VirtualBox" or "VirtualBox-3.1.4") was created and look for a
README or an INSTALL file to tell you what to do from there.

--wpd