VBox 3.0.2 on Red Hat Enterprise 5

qqragoon · Post by **qqragoon** » 30. Jul 2009, 01:29

hi , i am trying to install "VirtualBox-3.0.2_49928_rhel5-1.i386.rpm" on a red hat enterprise system (Linux 2.6.18-128.el5). After running the rpm, i got following error:

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error: Failed dependencies:
        libpython2.4.so.1.0 is needed by VirtualBox-3.0.2_49928_rhel5-1.i386

Can anyone help? I think i have python 2.4.3 installed already.... thx

Post by **Perryg** » 30. Jul 2009, 02:40

Have you tried to do an update on the OS? This is usually what causes these errors.

qqragoon · Post by **qqragoon** » 30. Jul 2009, 11:04

i am new on this. how do i update the OS? thx..

Post by **Martin** » 30. Jul 2009, 11:20

Yoiu could also try a
yum localinstall VirtualBox-3.0.2_49928_rhel5-1.i386.rpm
which should take care of the dependencies (if the relevant packages are available in the repositories)

qqragoon · Post by **qqragoon** » 30. Jul 2009, 18:58

no, the localinstall didn't help. Same error message showed up. Thanks for your reply though.

Post by **Perryg** » 30. Jul 2009, 19:28

Update the OS then try again.

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$su <password>
#yum update

qqragoon · Post by **qqragoon** » 30. Jul 2009, 21:06

the update showed:

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Setting up Update Process
No Packages marked for Update

any other suggestions?

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