Scientific Linux: Installing Virtual Box via RPM
Another one of these... Installation without repository declaration, except for the VirtualBox repo... Compared to the ones I did lately -specially VLC- this one is a real piece of cake...
First things first... So, install dkms...
First things first... So, install dkms...
wget http://pkgs.repoforge.org/dkms/dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el6.rf.noarch.rpm
> sudo rpm --test -ivh dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el6.rf.noarch.rpm [sudo] password for XXXXXXX: warning: dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el6.rf.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6b8d79e6: NOKEY error: Failed dependencies: gcc is needed by dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el6.rf.noarch kernel-devel is needed by dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el6.rf.noarch make is needed by dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el6.rf.noarchA bit of the old yum to install these ones:
> sudo yum install gcc kernel-devel makeSo here comes the install...
> sudo rpm -ivh dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el6.rf.noarch.rpm warning: dkms-2.1.1.2-1.el6.rf.noarch.rpm: Header V3 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 6b8d79e6: NOKEY Preparing... ########################################### [100%] 1:dkms ########################################### [100%] VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.18_78361_rhel6-1.i686.rpm | 63 MB 05:53 warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 98ab5139: NOKEY Retrieving key from http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc Importing GPG key 0x98AB5139: Userid: "Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key)And finally, add your regular user to the vboxusers group and you are done for the day:" From : http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc Is this ok [y/N]: y Running rpm_check_debug Running Transaction Test Transaction Test Succeeded Running Transaction Warning: RPMDB altered outside of yum. Installing : VirtualBox-4.1-4.1.18_78361_rhel6-1.i686 1/1 Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group! No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log. Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules [ OK ] Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS [ OK ] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ] Installed: VirtualBox-4.1.i686 0:4.1.18_78361_rhel6-1 Complete!
sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers XXXXXXMore info, and howto get the VirtualBox repo on your box: Installing and using VirtualBox on CentOS
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