Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-20 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 17 mai 14, 14:24:59, Gary Roach wrote: > > PS - I hope that some of the "snarky" seeming replies were due to non > native english speaking instead of malevolent intent. If not keep a lid on > the temper folks. I must have lost my patience after repeating the same thing over and over aga

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/17/2014 01:14 PM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 17 mai 14, 12:34:12, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/17/2014 11:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 17 mai 14, 10:29:43, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry,

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 17 mai 14, 12:34:12, Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/17/2014 11:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > >On Sb, 17 mai 14, 10:29:43, Gary Roach wrote: > >>On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > >>>On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > >>> > Sorry, I thought I had. --print-ar

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Filip
On Sat, 17 May 2014 12:34:12 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/17/2014 11:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > > On Sb, 17 mai 14, 10:29:43, Gary Roach wrote: > >> On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > >>> On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > >>> > Sorry, I thought I ha

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/17/2014 11:04 AM, Andrei POPESCU wrote: On Sb, 17 mai 14, 10:29:43, Gary Roach wrote: On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I thought I had. --print-architecture => i386, --print-foreign-architectures => amd64 And th

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Sb, 17 mai 14, 10:29:43, Gary Roach wrote: > On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: > >On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > > > >>Sorry, I thought I had. --print-architecture => i386, > >>--print-foreign-architectures => amd64 > >And there it is - you are running a 32-

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/17/2014 08:49 AM, Tom Furie wrote: On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: Sorry, I thought I had. --print-architecture => i386, --print-foreign-architectures => amd64 And there it is - you are running a 32-bit system with a 64-bit kernel. Cheers, Tom And how do I

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Tom Furie
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 08:23:07AM -0700, Gary Roach wrote: > Sorry, I thought I had. --print-architecture => i386, > --print-foreign-architectures => amd64 And there it is - you are running a 32-bit system with a 64-bit kernel. Cheers, Tom -- QOTD: "I never met a man I couldn't drink

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/17/2014 01:27 AM, Filip wrote: On Fri, 16 May 2014 12:06:51 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: Here is an attempt to answer all of the questions and suggestions: I am definitely installing Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 ( I checked the grub config files) You'll have to stop telling only half of the sto

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 16 mai 14, 22:25:04, Linux-Fan wrote: > > As others already suggested, you are likely to use a mixed AMD64 + i386 > system BTW, until now there is *zero* evidence to support this. Kind regards, Andrei -- http://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser Offtopic discussions among Debian users a

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 16 mai 14, 22:25:04, Linux-Fan wrote: > > As others already suggested, you are likely to use a mixed AMD64 + i386 > system which confuses the automatic installation of Virtualbox' kernel > modules. No, I believe it's much more simpler that that: $ apt-cache show dkms Package: dkms Version

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Vi, 16 mai 14, 12:06:51, Gary Roach wrote: > > Any ideas will be sincerely appreciated. I really need to get this problem > solved. We can't help you if you don't provide more information, at a minimum. dpkg --print-architecture dpkg --foreign-architectures Kind regards, Andrei -- h

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-17 Thread Filip
On Fri, 16 May 2014 12:06:51 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > Here is an attempt to answer all of the questions and suggestions: > I am definitely installing Linux 3.2.0-4-amd64 ( I checked the > grub config files) You'll have to stop telling only half of the story, if you want help with this. Yo

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-16 Thread John Bleichert
On 05/16/2014 03:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: Any ideas will be sincerely appreciated. I really need to get this problem solved. Gary R. On jessie/sid I use virtualbox from wheezy. Works fine on my i7 (amd64 version), using this source: deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-16 Thread Linux-Fan
On 05/16/2014 09:06 PM, Gary Roach wrote: [...] > Another comment on the above and the Mozilla User Agent comment: I > am sure that much of the software in the Wheezy distro is not 64 bit > software ( Mozilla included) and usually co-exists nicely with the 64 > bit system. How do you get tha

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-16 Thread Gary Roach
On 05/15/2014 08:43 AM, Gary Roach wrote: Hi All I have given up on Wine for running some of my Windoz only software. Too many glitches. I am trying to install Virtualbox and am getting installation errors as follows: root@supercrunch:/home/gary# aptitude install virtualbox The following NEW

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-15 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Jo, 15 mai 14, 08:43:01, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi All > > I have given up on Wine for running some of my Windoz only software. Too > many glitches. I am trying to install Virtualbox and am getting installation > errors as follows: > > root@supercrunch:/home/gary# aptitude install virtualbox > Th

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-15 Thread Filip
On Thu, 15 May 2014 08:43:01 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > Note: I am running an Intel i5-750 processor and Wheezy with uname -a > giving: Linux supercrunch 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u1 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > . > . > . > Processing triggers for menu ... > > Setting up libgsoap2 (2.8

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-15 Thread Slavko
Ahoj, Dňa Thu, 15 May 2014 17:47:23 +0200 Aleksander Kurczyk napísal: > Hi, > > Try downloading it from the official repo. > > https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads > It is not the best solution. There are small problems with kernel updates, where the modules are not build automati

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-15 Thread Patrick Bartek
On Thu, 15 May 2014, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi All > > I have given up on Wine for running some of my Windoz only software. > Too many glitches. I am trying to install Virtualbox and am getting > installation errors as follows: > > root@supercrunch:/home/gary# aptitude install virtualbox > The fol

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-15 Thread VieuxGeek DuSystem
Hi You said your are in a 64 bits, but you has install the 32bit paquet so the 32bits linux-headers-3.2.0-4-686-pae. Unpacking virtualbox (from .../virtualbox_4.1.18-dfsg-2+d eb7u3_i386.deb) ... Try to install the 64bits paquet. 2014-05-15 18:18 GMT+02:00 Filip : > On Thu, 15 May 2014 08:43:

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-15 Thread Filip
On Thu, 15 May 2014 08:43:01 -0700 Gary Roach wrote: > Note: I am running an Intel i5-750 processor and Wheezy with uname -a > giving: Linux supercrunch 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u1 > x86_64 GNU/Linux > . > . > . > Processing triggers for menu ... > > Setting up libgsoap2 (2.8.

Re: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-15 Thread Linux-Fan
On 05/15/2014 05:43 PM, Gary Roach wrote: > Hi All > > I have given up on Wine for running some of my Windoz only software. Too > many glitches. I am trying to install Virtualbox and am getting > installation errors as follows: > > root@supercrunch:/home/gary# aptitude install virtualbox > The fo

RE: Vertualbox installation errors

2014-05-15 Thread Aleksander Kurczyk
Hi, Try downloading it from the official repo. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads -- Best regards, Aleksander Kurczyk > Date: Thu, 15 May 2014 08:43:01 -0700 > From: gary719_li...@verizon.net > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Ver