Installing On Ubuntu 7.10

[fausto]

Hi. I'm using this tutorial https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VirtualBox to install virtualbox on Ubuntu 7.10. So far I have:

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sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-source
sudo module-assistant prepare
sudo module-assistant update

But when I try the next step, I get:

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~$ sudo m-a unpack virtualbox-ose
The source tarball could not be found!
Package virtualbox-ose not installed?
Running "m-a -f get virtualbox-ose" may help.

I try run what it suggests:

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~$ sudo m-a -f get virtualbox-ose
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6285kB of archives.
After this operation, 0B of additional disk space will be used.
(Reading database ... 118921 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace virtualbox-ose 2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1 (using .../virtualbox-ose_2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1_i386.deb) ...
Shutting down VirtualBox host networking ...done.
 * Stopping VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv                             [ OK ] 
Unpacking replacement virtualbox-ose ...
Setting up virtualbox-ose (2.0.4-dfsg-0ubuntu1) ...
Starting VirtualBox host networking * Starting VirtualBox kernel module vboxdrv                                                                          [ OK ] 


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But then I still get the same old error again:

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~$ sudo m-a unpack virtualbox-ose
The source tarball could not be found!
Package virtualbox-ose not installed?
Running "m-a -f get virtualbox-ose" may help.

What gives?

[TerryE]

Sorry but I recommend that you use the Sun download (the PEUL edition). If you want to use the Ubuntu OSE package then the best place to ask about that is on the Ubuntu forums. They're the guys who created it.

If you add the Sun proprietary repository to your sources, then all you need to do is an apt-get install virtualbox-2.1 (after you've removed the OSE version).