On Sun, May 28, 2017 at 10:57 PM, G B via oi-dev <[email protected]> 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 :) > > > _______________________________________________ > oi-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/oi-dev > -- --- Praise the Caffeine embeddings
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