When I installed VirtualBox 3.0.4 on Fedora 11 x86-64, I clicked on the link to the AMD64 binaries for Fedora 11 and let the Package Manager install VirtualBox for me. Now that VirtualBox 3.0.6 is out, how do I update?
If I type the command `yum info VirtualBox' I get information about the installed VirtualBox package as I would expect. But when I type `yum update VirtualBox' I get the error message `Error: No Package Matching VirtualBox'.
It seems that I get this error because yum cannot find VirtualBox in the repositories I set up. Ok, I suppose I can understand that even though it is a bit confusing that yum sometimes knows about VirtualBox and sometimes claims there is no VirtualBox. What should I do to update? Set up a repository so yum update works? Install VirtualBox 3.0.6 just as I installed VirtualBox 3.0.4? Uninstall VirtualBox 3.0.4 first? Something else?
How to update VirtualBox on Fedora
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Perryg
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Re: How to update VirtualBox on Fedora
More than likely the new release has not been added to the Fedora repo yet.
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Re: How to update VirtualBox on Fedora
You probably downloaded the PUEL version from the website, and let the package manager install the local file. For the update, do the same. There is no repo for the PUEL version for RPM based distro's (yet).
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Re: How to update VirtualBox on Fedora
Thanks! This worked with no problems.Sasquatch wrote:You probably downloaded the PUEL version from the website, and let the package manager install the local file. For the update, do the same.