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settantta wrote:I seem to have the answer... (I hope ).

I'm running Mandriva 2008.1 on an AMD X2, 2 GB ram.

Installed the Mandriva RPMs, had the OS version running, but as noted no USB support.

I went to sun's download page, grabbed the generic Linux self-installing package for
AMD64

Made the .run file executable, ran it as root, and it replaced the existing libraries with the non-OSS libraries. Now when I click on the existing menu icon, the Sun closed-source version is what runs, complete with USB support.

That seems to be the answer I am looking for. Will you please instruct me how to make VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_amd64.run file executable? Do you copy VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_amd64.run to a specific location before running it? When it runs, does it automatically replace the existing library files? I basically need to know how to do what you did.

su 
./ VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_amd64.run
exit

 cd <location of downloaded file>
su
sh ./ VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_amd64.run
exit

settantta wrote:

That seems to be the answer I am looking for. Will you please instruct me how to make VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_amd64.run file executable? Do you copy VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_amd64.run to a specific location before running it? When it runs, does it automatically replace the existing library files? I basically need to know how to do what you did.

Save location really doesn't matter - I have a separate directory in which I save all downloads

If you are using Konqueror (or similar graphical file manager), simply right-click, select "Properties", click the "permissions" tab and check the "Is executable" checkbox (just below the three drop-downs).

Open a terminal emulator (In Konqueror, it's Window-->Show Terminal Emulator). Then into the emulator window (which should be the same as the directory you're looking at), type

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su 
./ VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_amd64.run
exit

Alternativel;y, quicker and easier, in a terminal window,

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 cd <location of downloaded file>
su
sh ./ VirtualBox-1.6.4-Linux_amd64.run
exit

The second method doesn't require you to change permissions

And yes, from what I read in the terminal, all it does is replace the libraries and add a menu item.