--- In [email protected], J <dreadpiratejeff@...> wrote: > > On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 21:32, james_jolin <james.jolin@...> wrote: > > I recently got the upgrade notice for Vbox. I downloaded the upgrade and > > unlike before the deb installer did not come up to do the > > install. For the life of me I cannot find what is missing. This did not > > happen with Ubuntu 10,10. Anyone with some ideas?? > > Jim > > > Open a terminal. > > sudo dpkg -i /path/to/virtualbox-file.deb > > that's the quick way. As for why the package installer didn't launch, > who knows... my first guess would be that an update to your browser > broke/deleted the mime type for .debs > Tried the dpkg on the terminal. It worked this time. Will have to check the mime type...the new browser is firefox 4.x Jim
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