VirtualBox on Ubuntu Karmic 64bit

[RPVG]

I downloaded VirtualBox, and kept it on the desktop, when I go to install it tells me that the program does not exist. Can anyone help me? I ran this command from terminal and got the following output :

sudo dpkg-i virtualbox-3.0_3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic_amd64.deb 
sudo: dpkg-i: command not found

How can be this possible? Please help...

[Rudra.J]

Why don't you run the deb files directly? I mean just double click on it and it will present you with the GUI installer. This is the best and easiest process so far. Try this out and post if that works. But first make sure your ubuntu 9.10 is a 64bit OS, else the package you are trying to install is not valid...

[RPVG]

Ok, i tried this command but still i get an error :

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.0_3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic_amd64.deb 
Reading package list... Done 
Generating dependency tree 
Reading state information... Done 
E: Could not find package virtualbox-.0_3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic_amd64.deb

Now what is wrong with this? Please help... Also i will try double click right away...

[Solomon]

Hello there,
The command which you used is wrong. You cannot specify the exact file name as, apt-get install searches automatically whichever package is appropriate for your operating system. The command which yuo used :

apt-get install virtualbox-3.0_3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic_amd64.deb

says that you have this package, but apt-get will not install the downloaded package. For that you need to use dpkg command or just double click...

[RPVG]

I cannot install it by double click, it tell me [Error: Architecture "amd64" wrong]. Now my computer has a 64bit processor and i have installed Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic 64-bit. The package is also for 64-bit. What may be the problem now? I also tried running :

sudo apt-get install virtualbox
[sudo] password for rpvg: 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package virtualbox is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package virtualbox has no installation candidate

What now? Please help. This is so frustrating...

[Rudra.J]

Add this line in third party software package list and do not close it :

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian karmic non-free

Now open terminal and run :

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

Now close the software source window. Click on Reload. When it finishes, in terminal again type :

sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Then you will get the list of available version above, then select the one which you want to install, i recommend 3.0, so type this :

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.0

This will then download and install the appropriate packages of VirtualBox on your computer...

[skrimps]

Hello all,

I'm having an issue with getting this installed. the following is the output from my terminal.

skrimps@Athena:/usr/share/virtualbox$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-3.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
virtualbox-3.0
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 76 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/43.9MB of archives.
After this operation, 87.4MB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 355700 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking virtualbox-3.0 (from .../virtualbox-3.0_3.0.12-54655%5fUbuntu%5fkarmic_amd64.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.12-54655%5fUbuntu%5fkarmic_amd64.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/virtualbox/VBoxGuestAdditions.iso', which is also in package virtualbox-guest-additions 0:3.0.8-1
dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
Processing triggers for ureadahead ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-3.0_3.0.12-54655%5fUbuntu%5fkarmic_amd64.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
skrimps@Athena:/usr/share/virtualbox$


any help would b e greatly appreciated..have tried all versions of Virtbox...no go...however, i can use Virtbox OSE with no problem...I wish to PUEL for the USB support

[shylo]

I downloaded VirtualBox, and kept it on the desktop, when I go to install it tells me that the program does not exist. Can anyone help me? I ran this command from terminal and got the following output :

sudo dpkg-i virtualbox-3.0_3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic_amd64.deb 
sudo: dpkg-i: command not found

How can be this possible? Please help...

you missed the space between the command (dpkg) and the argument (-i)

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-3.0_3.0.10-54097_Ubuntu_karmic_amd64.deb