Hi Ken
Thanks, I’ve finally got round to using the official Oracle VirtualBox repoe, after doing a bit of research into the dependency issue I got when I tried to install from it the first time,
which was
Problem: nothing provides libvpx.so.1()(64bit) needed by VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.6_130049_openSUSE132-1.x86_64
There were threads on the VirtualBox forums suggesting that simply creating links in /usr/lib64 would fix problems
so I did:
cd /usr/lib64/
sudo ln -s libvpx.so.6.0.0 libvpx.so.1
sudo ln -s libvpx.so.6.0.0 libvpx.so.4
sudo ln -s libvpx.so.6.0.0 libvpx.so.2
sudo ln -s libvpx.so.6.0.0 libvpx.so.3
sudo ln -s libvpx.so.6.0.0 libvpx.so.5
sudo ln -s libvpx.so.6.0.0 libvpx.so.5.0
sudo ln -s libvpx.so.6.0.0 libvpx.so.4.0
sudo ln -s libvpx.so.6.0.0 libvpx.so.3.0
sudo ln -s libvpx.so.6.0.0 libvpx.so.2.0
sudo ln -s libvpx.so.6.0.0 libvpx.so.1.0
which is possibly a bit of overkill, as it was only complaining about libvpx.so.1
After that, I removed all the Tumbleweed Virtualbox (6.0.4) packages I had installed and did a
sudo zypper install VirtualBox-6.0
NB if you don’t remove the OpenSUSE virtualbox 6.0.4 packages you will get file conflicts at this point, so best to do it before
I still got the error about libvpx.so.1 but told it to install anyway
and 6.0.6 installed, and appears to be working fully
Information for package VirtualBox-6.0:
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Repository : VirtualBox for openSUSE 42.3 x86_64
Name : VirtualBox-6.0
Version : 6.0.6_130049_openSUSE132-1
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : Oracle Corporation
Installed Size : 235.9 MiB
Installed : Yes
Status : up-to-date
Source package : VirtualBox-6.0-6.0.6_130049_openSUSE132-1.src
Summary : Oracle VM VirtualBox
And my Win7 VM is working again.
Obviously you may also need to update the Guest extensions package inside your VMs, and I also added the 6.0.6 Extension Pack in VirtualBox itself
For those of you also stuck, you can add the Oracle repo in Tumbleweed by following the instructions on
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
You will need to modify the repo file as I mentioned in an earlier post on this thread as Tumbleweed itself is not supported
eg
baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/opensuse/42.3/x86_64
I tried following LarryFinger’s instructions on the bug tracker to add his personal repo using Yast2, but I kept getting errors with the repo - almost certainly my fault - so decided to go ahead with looking at the official Oracle virtualbox repos
Someone has posted that they got Larry’s instructions to work
for all the hard work that Larry has been doing, which I appreciate but could not get his repo to work for me