Vboxmanage not installed

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RussellS
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Vboxmanage not installed

Post by RussellS »

Hi, could someone give me some advice please.

I am running Ubuntu 9.04 and installed Virtualbox OSE to run Windows XP as a guest OS. However, I wanted USB support so uninstalled the OSE version and installed Virtualbox 2.2.4 (PUEL version) which is up and running fine. However, I want to clone the virtual hard disk and so needed to use vboxmanage from the command line but it would appear that it is not installed. If I try to run vboxmanage from terminal I get this:-

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russell@ubuntu-desktop:~$ vboxmanage
The program 'vboxmanage' is currently not installed.  You can install it by typing:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
bash: vboxmanage: command not found
russell@ubuntu-desktop:~$ 
...which is telling me to install the OSE version. The problem is that when I had the OSE version installed it would not let me install the PUEL version until the other had been removed so I assume they cannot both run side by side.

Could someone advise me what I need to do to overcome this please. I looked but could not find a separate vboxmanage package to install.


Many thanks

Russell
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Re: Vboxmanage not installed

Post by baf »

Linux is case sensitive!
try:
VBoxManage
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RussellS
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Re: Vboxmanage not installed

Post by RussellS »

Thanks for that. How stupid do I feel now :oops:

Anyway, yeah that sorted it.


Many thanks

Russell
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