Install VirtuaBox 4

[Lucio M Nicolosi]

On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 12:45 PM, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> Sven Aluoor wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi<lmnicolosi at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> You should first remove VB OSE, and then install Vb 4.0.
>>
>> "aptitude purge virtualbox-ose" and then again double click on your
>> package.
>>
>> cheers Sven
>>
> OK, thanks to Sven and Lucio for the info. I suspected that but none of the
> docs I read seemed to address going from OSE to PUEL.
>
> Regards,  Jim

Jim,

Instead of downloading directly from the site, you should include VBox
repository in Software Sources. This way VBox will be installed and
automatically upgraded via Synaptic or Update Manager or apt-get.

For instructions please check:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

L.

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Lucio M. Nicolosi, Eng.
Open Source Platform Implementation
System and Applications
GNU/Linux - Ubuntu