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From: Tamas Karpati <tkarpati@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VirtualBox: invisible executable
Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:43:05
Message-Id: CAN5Ox5MZEyAHztG=y=NpGjF-qiyDWRors-BGn6wWNzyMVpKRHQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] VirtualBox: invisible executable by Mark Knecht
1 Dear Mark,
2
3 Thank you for your effort again. Quick rechecked to see that all four
4 pkgs that you've mentioned are already installed. I think this comes
5 from the USE flags, I've added extensions and sdk to defaults.
6 Besides, I use "emerge -vbuND", not just "emerge -v".
7
8 Regards,
9 toma
10
11
12 On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 4:58 PM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
13 > On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:54 AM, Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
14 >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2015 at 7:23 AM, Tamas Karpati <tkarpati@×××××.com> wrote:
15 >>> Hi,
16 >>> Sorry for a stupid question: VirtualBox installed faillessly, however,
17 >>> couldn't find an appropriate executable to ignite it. Only I found
18 >>> VBoxHeadless, VBoxSDL, VBoxVRDP, VBoxManage and
19 >>> VBoxTunctl in /usr/bin ... no virtualbox or anything else I've seen
20 >>> in wikis or at the home page. Checked /usr/lib64/virtualbox, too,
21 >>> to no avail. The USE flag vboxwebsrv was off but the logs
22 >>> mention an XPCOM server being present (after blind shooting at
23 >>> various exes). OpenRC is aware of the modules, seen them via
24 >>> lsmod after reboot. Stuck (ridicolous me today :(
25 >>> Plz, ideas...
26 >>>
27 >>> Thanks in advance,
28 >>> toma
29 >>>
30 >>
31 >> /usr/bin/VirtualBox
32 >>
33 >> That should start up the GUI where you can do an install.
34 >>
35 >> HTH,
36 >> Mark
37 >
38 > In case it's a flags issue here's what I have installed:
39 >
40 > c2RAID6 ~ # emerge -pv virtualbox virtualbox-additions
41 > virtualbox-extpack-oracle virtualbox-modules
42 >
43 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
44 >
45 > Calculating dependencies... done!
46 > [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-additions-4.3.20 0 KiB
47 > [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-modules-4.3.20
48 > USE="-pax_kernel" 0 KiB
49 > [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-4.3.20-r1 USE="additions
50 > alsa java opengl pam qt4 sdk udev -doc -extensions -headless
51 > -pulseaudio -python -vboxwebsrv -vnc" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7" 0 KiB
52 > [ebuild R ~] app-emulation/virtualbox-extpack-oracle-4.3.20.96996 0 KiB
53 >
54 > Total: 4 packages (4 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 0 KiB
55 > c2RAID6 ~ #
56 >

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] VirtualBox: invisible executable Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>