RHEL4 installation

[pmwhitener]

I am a Solaris guy and I am trying to install VirtualBox 2.2.2 on RHEL4 2.6.9-67.0.7.ELsmp x86_64. While it is a 64bit linux install, I tried the 32bit VirtualBox install. It complains about the libpython2.3.so.1.0 lib missing. This of course makes sense because libpython is in fact installed as a 64bit package and lives in /usr/lib64. (Sim link doesn't trick it either.)

So i tried the 64bit RHEL5 install. It does not see stuff it needs even though it is in /usr/lib64.

Question. Where is VirtualBox looking for the libs to be installed? (/usr/lib, /usr/lib64, etc)

thanks in advance!

[chungy]

You really shouldn't mix-and-match different VirtualBox versions. the 32-bit one won't work on 64-bit host operating systems, and the RHEL5 one probably won't work on RHEL4, as you can probably see.

If it's a possibility, I would say either upgrade your host to RHEL5, install the i386 version of RHEL4, or try to get the VirtualBox team to start supporting RHEL4 x86_64. Beyond that, you probably have a better bet of installing the OSE version of VirtualBox on your RHEL4/x86_64 host.

[sej7278]

64-bit rhel5 works fine with the rpm.

rhel4 is pretty old, i'd call it legacy and you shouldn't be using it for anything new - just maintaining existing stuff if needed.

[pmwhitener]

Thanks for the input!