Bruce, On Thursday 17 September 2009, Bruce MacArthur wrote: > I have just taken the http://download... link offered above. Because I > am running Kubuntu Jaunty as a 32-bit system, I chose the next-to-last > (Ubuntu Jaunty x86) option. Next I chose to use KpackageKit. The product > downloaded quickly. Eventually, I was asked if I want to install, and I > chose the Install option. > > Now I have three dialogue boxes on my screen. The title-bar of the first > says "Installing file - KPackageKit". There is a large bold "Finished" > message immediately above what I would normally consider to be a > "progress meter". It has a large blue button which is simply going > back-and-forth along the "meter" area. The button-options (below the > "meter") are "Details", "Hide", and "Cancel"; "Hide" is active. > > The title-bar of the second dialogue box says "An internal system error > has occurred - KPackageKit". There is a warning symbol (exclamation-mark > within triangle), the message "A problem that we were not expecting has > occurred. Please report this bug with the error description." There are > two buttons -- "Details" and "OK". When I tried "Details" -- to make > this report more usable! -- my system "hung"; I lost ALL control, and > NOTHING would happen! > > The final dialogue box simply declared that "An error has occurred." And > it covered-up the other two! > > I would very much appreciate instructions for getting VirtualBox 3.0.6 > to install and work correctly on my system -- and will gladly try to > provide whatever additional information is requested by anyone who can > assist. THANKS for your time with this message!!!
Well, I'm not sure what went wrong with your installation. You can try to fix the installation by doing sudo dpkg --configure --pending Make sure you terminated the kpackagekit manager before you try this. Then post the output of this command. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sitz der Gesellschaft: Sun Microsystems GmbH, Sonnenallee 1, 85551 Kirchheim-Heimstetten Amtsgericht München: HRB 161028 Geschäftsführer: Thomas Schröder, Wolfgang Engels, Wolf Frenkel Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrates: Martin Häring
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