Chris,
I am not in that lab right now, but I think the extension pack is included
in the guest addition, I will check on Monday when I get back on campus. I
usually use Debian, but could never get VB to work properly. Since I do not
have time to play with it right now as I am using it for my classes, I have
not looked into it anny further. I was actually able to get the extension
packs installed in debian, but I could not get networking to work. Right
now I am using VB only for doing desktop assignments on the VM's so I do
not need networking. But you are right, this is pretty convoluted. I will
look into this on Monday and will be back in contact if I find anything.
Gerry
On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:22 AM, Chris Green <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:13:42AM -0400, Gerard Arthus wrote:
> > Chris,
> >
> > Be careful installing the extension pack in Ubuntu, make sure that the
> > versions are the same otherwise you will break the installation and
> create
> > a mess. The Ubuntu version (which I think may be 4.2) can only get the
> > version 4.2 extemnsion pack. You should stick with the extension pack
> > which comes with the Ubuntu installation.
> >
> ?? what "extension pack which comes with the Ubuntu installation"? If
> there had been an obvious one I would have used it. There's the Guest
> Additions but that's not the same thing as the Extension Pack.
>
> This is the whole problem, there's no 'proper' (as in via the Ubuntu or
> anyone else's repository) way to install the Extension Pack, it seems to
> be only possible to do by bypassing the proper channels.
>
> I use the specific Oracle Ubuntu repository source for getting
> virtualbox:-
> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib
>
> but there's no Extension Pack there.
>
>
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