Installing tar.bz2 help

[J]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 15:10, Edwin McGuire <mcguiresmain at emypeople.com> wrote:

> I have an E-Mail ONLY Account i.e. emypeople.com.
> So, i can load up my desktop and take it to a friends house everytime i want
> software from Ubuntu or install it from disks. yes, i'd love to have WEB
> access, just not fesible right now.As far as synaptic or console, I'd love
> to learn how to do it the apt-get way,but still learning.
> Hope that explains it better.
> Thanks Ed

That's just ... weird.  You have to connect to the internet to get
e-mail...  Ok...

When you go to your friends house, all you REALLY need to do is use
that friend's computer, download the files and put them on a USB
stick.

You can get full Virtualbox .deb packages here:
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

If you want the OSE version (latest release) it can be downloaded here:
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/universe/v/virtualbox-ose/

You need the .deb packages for virtualbox-ose, virtualbox-ose-dkms,
virtualbox-ose-qt

Or for the latest OSE source code tarball:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.2.4/VirtualBox-3.2.4-OSE.tar.bz2

All you need to do is get the file and put it on a USB stick, bring
that home and go from there.

To install VirtualBox from the .deb package (the first and second links):

sudo dpkg -i /path/to/the/files/virtualbox*

To install and build from the source, mount your CD.

open a terminal and do this:

mkdir vbox
cd vbox
tar jxvf /path/to/virtualboxfilename.tar.bz2
(or tar zxvf if the file ends in tar.gz)

then cd into the directory created.

Look at the README file and if there's a text file called INSTALL,
look at that one.  You'll get instructions for building and installing
from source.

HOWEVER, you probably don't have the build environment stuff installed either.

SO, honestly, the easiest thing to do is probably haul the computer to
your friends and install what you need there.

Also, if you want to play with Virtualbox, you need to make sure your
computer will handle it...

you need at least 1GB of RAM, 2GB is a better minimum, and at least a
dual core, or hyperthreaded processor.  Multi-core is better.

Good luck!

./jeff