VirtualBox Won't install on Fedora 29. Same issue as bug 16038

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PaulKBSR
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VirtualBox Won't install on Fedora 29. Same issue as bug 16038

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Downloaded "VirtualBox-5.2-5.2.20_125813_fedora26-1.x86_64.rpm" and tried to install and got the following error:

['\n Problem: conflicting requests\n - nothing provides libvpx.so.4()(64bit) needed by VirtualBox-5.2-5.2.20_125813_fedora26-1.x86_64']

This is the same problem as reported in VirtualBox Bug 16038 with a different file. I think.
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xuthus
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Re: VirtualBox Won't install on Fedora 29. Same issue as bug 16038

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I tried many machines and found that you had the same problem.
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Re: VirtualBox Won't install on Fedora 29. Same issue as bug 16038

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See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542884 . There is a Koji build for compat-libvpx4 for F28 ( https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/bui ... ID=1028650 ) which also works for me in F29 (by which I mean VirtualBox appears to install and work normally in F29 after installing this package).
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Re: VirtualBox Won't install on Fedora 29. Same issue as bug 16038

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Thanks a ton... Worked beautifully! I sincerely appreciate the help!
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Re: VirtualBox Won't install on Fedora 29. Same issue as bug 16038

Post by WFV »

Just did an upgrade from Fedora (guest) 28 to 29 in VirtualBox 5.2.22, and Linux (host) kernel 4.19.1 without any issue - it took a long time but usually the upgrade takes a lot longer than updates which also take a long time
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Re: VirtualBox Won't install on Fedora 29. Same issue as bug 16038

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The F29 build of VB 6.0.0 installs and appears to work fine without the compat-libvpx4 workaround. Thanks!
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Re: VirtualBox Won't install on Fedora 29. Same issue as bug 16038

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I'll wait for a second confirmation before marking this as [Solved] if you don't mind @robatino.
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