Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 12:01:38PM -0400, Chuck Gelm wrote: >> appended >> "deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian feisty non-free" >> to end of /etc/apt/sources.list >> > > I'm not running ubuntu here, and I don't own a x64 system. Having said > that however, ubuntu is debian-based, and the procedures for > administering a x64 system should be the same as those for a x86 > system. So, having said that, did you run > > apt-get update > > after modifying /etc/apt/sources.list?
Hi, Greg: No, not at that time, but I just did, and there are a few error messages. Here is the response: ----- Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Translation-en_US Get:2 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Translation-en_US Ign http://www.virtualbox.org fiesty Release.gpg Ign http://www.virtualbox.org fiesty/non-free Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Translation-en_US Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release Ign http://www.virtualbox.org fiesty Release Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Packages Ign http://www.virtualbox.org fiesty/non-free Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Sources Err http://www.virtualbox.org fiesty/non-free Packages 404 Not Found Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Sources Failed to fetch http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/dists/fiesty/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found Fetched 3B in 0s (3B/s) Reading package lists... E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ----- > >> apt-key add innotek.asc >> >> gpg: can't open 'annotek.asc': No such file or directory. >> >> ----- > > Before you do that, you need to have a file called innotek.asc in your > current working directory, which contains innotek's gpg key. Also, I'm > not sure if there was a typo or not, but your command-line referred to > a file innotek.asc, while the gpg error referred to a file called > annotek.asc. If this is a typo, then that's understandable. If you > were using copy/paste, and this is really the output that gpg > returned, then something really strange is going on here. Here is the output of 'apt-key add innotek.asc'; Cut'n'Pasted: gpg: can't open `innotek.asc': No such file or directory > <snip> > > It looks like you're missing some dependencies. If you really want to > use dpkg -i to install by hand, then you'll need to install the > missing dependencies first. Since virtualbox seems to be partly > installed anyway, just running > > apt-get --fix-missing install virtualbox This returns a few errors also: ----- Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... virtualbox is already the newest version. You might want to run `apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet dependencies: virtualbox: Depends: libqt3-mt (>= 3:3.3.8really3.3.7) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxalan110 but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxerces27 but it is not going to be installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). ----- So I ran 'apt-get -f install' and it 'seemed to run okay'. (sorry) So I ran 'apt-get update' again: ----- Get:1 http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Translation-en_US Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Translation-en_US Ign http://www.virtualbox.org fiesty Release.gpg Ign http://www.virtualbox.org fiesty/non-free Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Translation-en_US Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security Release Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Translation-en_US Get:3 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release.gpg [191B] Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Translation-en_US Ign http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Translation-en_US Ign http://www.virtualbox.org fiesty Release Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty Release Ign http://www.virtualbox.org fiesty/non-free Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates Release Err http://www.virtualbox.org fiesty/non-free Packages 404 Not Found Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/main Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/restricted Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/main Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/universe Sources Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Packages Hit http://security.ubuntu.com feisty-security/multiverse Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/restricted Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/universe Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty/multiverse Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Packages Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/main Sources Hit http://us.archive.ubuntu.com feisty-updates/restricted Sources Failed to fetch http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/dists/fiesty/non-free/binary-i386/Packages.gz 404 Not Found Fetched 3B in 0s (3B/s) Reading package lists... E: Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. ----- apt-key add innotek.asc still returns: gpg: can't open `innotek.asc': No such file or directory > may clear things up for you. This is off the top of my head, and I > haven't actually tried that syntax, so I maybe wrong here. > > The easiest way of installing virtualbox from scratch, as someone else > already partly pointed out would have been to add the necessary line > to /etc/apt/sources.list as you've already done, run > > apt-get update > > and run > > apt-get install virtualbox 'apt-get install virtualbox' now runs without error. The only item thus far is the error from 'apt-key add innotek.asc'. :-| Again, thanks. Chuck > > I would suggest that you find ubuntu's documentation on package > management, and read up on that. Hth. > > Greg _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
