[OpenIndiana-discuss] What to do about not having a compiler suitable to install VBox

[Till Wegmueller]

Hi Harry

Virtualbox from Oracle site is not compatible anymore with illumos and
is not supported.

Please use the packaged version install-able via pkg.

Greetings
Till

On 17.11.20 01:32, Harry Putnam wrote:
> Attempting to install an VBox pkg from the Oracle site I run into this
> output:
> 
> pkgadd -d ./*.pkg 
> 
> [...]
> 
> Oracle VM VirtualBox(i386) 6.1.14,REV=2020.09.04.10.03.140239
> 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
> 
> [...]
> 
> I do have developer gcc-7 and gcc-7-runtime, but apparently that is
> too new .. hehe.
> 
> 
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