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i researched and found this page that helps with support from ubuntu.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Virtu ... %208.04%20(Hardy

i did what it said:

Installing VirtualBox OSE on Hardy is even easier. From a terminal session run the following commands to install Virtualbox OSE.

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-source virtualbox-ose-modules-generic

Add yourself to the vboxusers group. You can add more usernames after "whoami" if you wish.

sudo gpasswd -a `whoami` vboxusers
or
sudo usermod -Gvboxusers -a `whoami`
or
sudo adduser $USER vboxusers

You will now have to log out of your desktop session and log back in order to update your group membership. Congratulations, you can now skip down to "Using Virtual Box" (which might be out of date?)

when i ran the first command, i got this error message in my terminal.

eldin@dual-core:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-source virtualbox-ose-modules-generic
[sudo] password for eldin:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
virtualbox-ose-modules-generic: Depends: virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-20-generic but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages
eldin@dual-core:~$


should i have downloaded something first before running this command?

Read the discussion in the FAQ about the difference between the PUEL and OSE versions. Most users want the PUEL only feature and we get a stream of posts "I have just installed (OSE) VirtualBox, why doesn't X Y work?"

So my recommendation is to uninstall the OSE version using the sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-source virtualbox-ose-modules-generic then read the instructions in the UG on how to install VBox on Linux, download the package from Sun and follow those instructions.

BTW the error is because you currently have a different kernel version to 2.6.24-20-generic. You need to update Hardy before you do any installs.

PS. If you ask me where to get the PEUL package from you should be getting the hang by now (see below), I might be tempted to lock this post on retaliation

can you send me the link to this article please? and thank you for your response.

You want the articles, read my signature .

i dont know if there is a way to mark this questions as solved. i was able to install without any other problems, i current have XP installed with all updates.

thank you everyone for the help