[oi-dev] Virtualbox

[G B]

I added documentation to the VirtualBox page on the wiki:
https://wiki.openindiana.org/oi/7.2+VirtualBox
 

    On Sunday, May 28, 2017 4:34 PM, G B via oi-dev <oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:
 

 Thank you
 

    On Sunday, May 28, 2017 4:11 PM, Aurélien Larcher <aurelien.larcher at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 

On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 10:57 PM, G B via oi-dev <oi-dev at openindiana.org> wrote:

Today I downloaded the latest Hipster release and subsequently attempted to install Virtualbox 5.1.22, 5.0.40, and 4.3.40.  All of them failed.  

For 5.1.22:Oracle VM VirtualBox(i386) 5.1.22,REV=2017.04.28.17.36. 115126
Oracle Corporation
## Executing checkinstall script.
Checking package dependencies...
## Missing packages: 
## IPS :  system/library/gcc/gcc-c++- runtime or system/library/gcc-45-runtime system/library/gcc/gcc-c- runtime or system/library/gcc-45-runtime
## SVr4:  SUNWPython SUNWPython-devel
## 
## Please install either the IPS or SVr4 packages before installing VirtualBox.
pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully

Installation of <SUNWvbox> failed.
No changes were made to the system.

For 5.0.40:Oracle VM VirtualBox(i386) 5.1.22,REV=2017.04.28.17.36. 115126
Oracle Corporation
## Executing checkinstall script.
Checking package dependencies...
## Missing packages: 
## IPS :  system/library/gcc/gcc-c++- runtime or system/library/gcc-45-runtime system/library/gcc/gcc-c- runtime or system/library/gcc-45-runtime
## SVr4:  SUNWPython SUNWPython-devel
## 
## Please install either the IPS or SVr4 packages before installing VirtualBox.
pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully

Installation of <SUNWvbox> failed.
No changes were made to the system.

For 4.3.40:Oracle VM VirtualBox(i386) 5.1.22,REV=2017.04.28.17.36. 115126
Oracle Corporation
## Executing checkinstall script.
Checking package dependencies...
## Missing packages: 
## IPS :  system/library/gcc/gcc-c++- runtime or system/library/gcc-45-runtime system/library/gcc/gcc-c- runtime or system/library/gcc-45-runtime
## SVr4:  SUNWPython SUNWPython-devel
## 
## Please install either the IPS or SVr4 packages before installing VirtualBox.
pkgadd: ERROR: checkinstall script did not complete successfully

Installation of <SUNWvbox> failed.
No changes were made to the system.

Virtualbox used to install on the old OpenSolaris.  It is kind of ironic that Sun created Virtualbox and Oracle still releases a package for Solaris, but none of them will install.  Why and how do I get Virtualbox installed, or is it not worth the effort?  If I can't run Virtualbox then Hipster is useless to me.


This has been discussed several times before on the MLs.
The error is that the pre-install script checks that 'gcc-45-runtime' is installed but this package does not exist on Hipster, only on Solaris.

You can look at Jim's scripts to work around the issue:

https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh

Now if there was a page on the Wiki about Virtualbox, maybe we would not need to answer the same question every month :)

 


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