I don't know how to install the guest additions in Puppy Linux 9.5.

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LPIII
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I don't know how to install the guest additions in Puppy Linux 9.5.

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I had entered into the terminal:

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apt-get install dkms build-essential linux-headers-generic
And got:

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apt-get: command  notfound
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Re: I don't know how to install the guest additions in Puppy Linux 9.5.

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Official Virtualbox Guest Additions for Linux does not use dkms. But they do have prerequisites, one of which is the headers. Please see https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch04. ... ions-linux and https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch02. ... nux-prereq. These prerequisites are the same as for installing Virtualbox on a Linux host.

Moving to Linux Guests.
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Re: I don't know how to install the guest additions in Puppy Linux 9.5.

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Don't use Puppy Linux, but if it is Debian/Ubuntu based then I believe the correct command will probably be:

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sudo apt install build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r)
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Re: I don't know how to install the guest additions in Puppy Linux 9.5.

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multiOS wrote:Don't use Puppy Linux, but...
I suspect this means "I don't use Puppy Linux, but...".

@LPIII, did this topic's recommendations help you?
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Re: I don't know how to install the guest additions in Puppy Linux 9.5.

Post by multiOS »

@scottgus1,

Yes, you are correct, it certainly wasn't intended to be an instruction and I really hope it wasn't taken that way. The comment was about my own non-use of Puppy Linux, and the suggested command-line format is based on the APT command line commonality between Debian/Ubuntu and their derivatives.
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