Hey all, I just installed OpenSuSE 13.1 on my workstation at work (I installed it at home and liked it so now I’m dual-booting it at work). The install went smoothly and now I’m installing assorted programs. I just downloaded VirtualBox 4.3.8 from the VirtualBox website but when I try to do the rpm -i I get the following errors:
SuseDesk:/home/jobee/Downloads # rpm -i VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.8_92456_openSUSE123-1.x86_64.rpm
warning: VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.8_92456_openSUSE123-1.x86_64.rpm: Header V4 DSA/SHA1 Signature, key ID 98ab5139: NOKEY
error: Failed dependencies:
libpng12.so.0()(64bit) is needed by VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.8_92456_openSUSE123-1.x86_64
libpng12.so.0(PNG12_0)(64bit) is needed by VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.8_92456_openSUSE123-1.x86_64
libvpx.so.1()(64bit) is needed by VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.8_92456_openSUSE123-1.x86_64
I installed libpng and libvpx but both versions installed as 32-bit versions and I can’t find 64-bit versions of the software. I’ve tried Googling the error messages but nothing recent shows up. I tried running:
zypper install gcc make automake autoconf kernel-source kernel-syms kernel-devel
and then rebooting but still no joy. I’ve tried to use VirtualBox from a repo before but had too many problems. This would have been the third VirtualBox installation I’ve done (v13.1 and v12.x at home) but I can’t figure this one out. Any help here would be greatly appreciated.
On 03/20/2014 06:06 PM, jbruyet pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
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Try also
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zypper in libpng12-0 libvpx1
to install the 64 bit versions. I run VB from the VB site and don’t have
problems.
Would everyone recommend that I use a repo install of VirtualBox as opposed to downloading the RPM from the Oracle website? Like I mentioned in my original post I I’ve had troubles in the past with VB installs from repos but that was with a different distribution. I need a stable install because I’m going to be using this at work and I don’t want any problems cropping up just before a deadline.
The openSUSE packages worked for me everytime. But be sure to install “virtualbox-qt” (that’s the official GUI), as YaST might select “vboxgtk” by default which doesn’t support the current VirtualBox versions very well.
The openSUSE packages have the advantage that you won’t have to recompile the kernel module after a kernel update. OTOH they only work with the standard openSUSE kernel.
openSUSE 13.1 comes with VirtualBox-4.2.18 (12.3 with 4.2.6), if you rather want to have the latest version, you should add the Virtualization repo first in YaST->Software Repositories->Add->Community Repos. This has 4.3.8 at the moment.
But the packages included in standard openSUSE don’t change (except for bugfixes), so might be preferable if you want a stable system…
Never tried the Oracle RPM but I have downloaded and installed the generic installer which requires you to have kernel source and gc installed. Also have no problem with the repo versions. With the added plus of not having to reinstall after kernel updates.
BTW if you found th 32 bit versions of the missing libraries then the 4 bit should also be there assuming you have correct repos set.
And thus it begins → I’ve installed VirtualBox from the repo and it installed just fine. I try to run VB and here’s the error message:
You are not a member of the "vboxusers" group. Please add yourself to this group before starting VirtualBox. Yadda yadda yadda...
SO, I tried to add myself to the vboxusers group from Yast but there’s only one group listed – users. So I’m thinking I need to add the vboxusers group to the system:
SuseDesk:/home/jobee # getent group vboxusers
vboxusers:x:483:
Well, ok then. I’ll just add myself from the command line:
“useradd” is for creating a new user.
To add an existing user to a group, use “usermod”:
usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER
Another note: If you need USB support, please copy the file /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/60-vboxdrv.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/, open that in a text editor and remove the ‘#’ characters at the beginning of the lines as instructed in that file.
USB access is disabled by default in the openSUSE packages because of security concerns.
Thank you wolfi323, that did it. I should have remembered that part about useradd. Oh well, I’m working on building up my experience. VB is up and running at this time. I’ll get to adding OSes later on.
gpasswd --help
Usage: gpasswd [option] GROUP
Options:
-a, --add USER add USER to GROUP
-d, --delete USER remove USER from GROUP
-h, --help display this help message and exit
-Q, --root CHROOT_DIR directory to chroot into
-r, --remove-password remove the GROUP's password
-R, --restrict restrict access to GROUP to its members
-M, --members USER,... set the list of members of GROUP
The options cannot be combined.
