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Hello,

Specs:
DELL OptiPlex 745/2Gb

Fresh install of Ubuntu 7.10 with patches as of Dec 21/08

I downloaded the .deb (http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualb ... d_i386.deb) and installed it. No problems during install that I noticed.

Jump to a terminal and type virtualbox. Here is what I get:

The program 'virtualbox' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose

I don't understand where I am going wrong....

I did search for that problem but the results I got had nothing to do with my fresh install.

Any help appreciated, thanks.

CSun

Just out of curiosity, why Ubuntu 7.10?

The problem you are seeing is the shell script that tries to find uninstalled applications based on CLI commands when bash cannot find an executable.

The application Ubuntu is telling you to install, virtualbox-ose, is the open-source-edition (OSE) version of VirtualBox. If you install that overtop of what you've already installed, you'll run into problems!

Instead, run "VirtualBox" (uppercase V and B) which on my Ubuntu 8.10 is installed as /usr/bin/VirtualBox

Also look in the menu: Application->System Tools->Sun xVM VirtualBox

If it doesn't show up in the menu yet, reboot.

Stéphane

Hi,

I meant to type 8.10 sorry about that.

Thanks for the reply. I'll give it a shot when I am at work tomorrow.

As for menus I noticed some apps add them and some don't so I got complacent with executing programs from the terminal.

Cheers,

CSun

Linux is case sensitive. If you want to run 'virtualbox', you would want to start the OSE version, as that is how they named it in the repo. If you want to run the version you installed from the website, you have to include the uppercase V and B like stephanecharette said.