<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">Thank your for the feedback! I did manage to finally get past the error however and started the first VM setup. </SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">I'm not real clear on setting up the repositories as you suggest below. When I tried to add some packages from the command line I got an error</SPAN></div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">about not having a candidate. Somehow I got past that. I need to do this a number of times to make it sink in!</SPAN></div>
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<div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">At least I am making some progress in using various functions of linux besides just installing it!<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr readonly="true" contenteditable="false"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Theron <theron@conrey.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> Central Iowa Linux Users Group <cialug@cialug.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Saturday, September 24, 2011 4:10 PM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [Cialug] Virtualbox<BR></FONT><BR>hmm. I always add the repository to my sources.list file <BR><BR>If you're using synaptic, select settings, repositories. In the<BR>software repositories window, select the other packages tab, select the<BR>add button. In the field, add the
corresponding repo info from the<BR>virtualbox page...<BR><BR>you'll need to add the key also, instructions for that are on the page. <BR><BR>Instructions to do so to get virtualbox are here:<BR><A href="http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads" target=_blank>http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads</A><BR><BR>about 1/3 way down the page subsection labled Debian-based Linux<BR>distributions.<BR><BR>-Theron<BR><BR><BR><BR>On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 08:28 -0700, Tom Sellers wrote:<BR>> I installed from a file downloaded from virtualbox.org and thought as<BR>> you stated that it would take care of it but I cannot start VM from<BR>> within virtualbox.<BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> From: Theron <<A href="mailto:theron@conrey.org" ymailto="mailto:theron@conrey.org">theron@conrey.org</A>><BR>> To: <A href="mailto:cialug@cialug.org" ymailto="mailto:cialug@cialug.org">cialug@cialug.org</A><BR>> Sent: Saturday, September
24, 2011 10:09 AM<BR>> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Virtualbox<BR>> <BR>> Tom,<BR>> <BR>> are you installing it from the ubuntu .deb from virtualbox.org? If so<BR>> it'll resolve the dependencies for you. <BR>> <BR>> -Theron <BR>> <BR>> <BR>> On Sat, 2011-09-24 at 08:03 -0700, Tom Sellers wrote:<BR>> > In reading the Virtualbox installation instructions again I found a<BR>> > section that states the following packages need to be installed.<BR>> > <BR>> > Qt 4.4.0 or higher<BR>> > SDL 1.2.7 or higher<BR>> > <BR>> > When I use the Synaptics Package Manager to search for either of<BR>> these<BR>> > two packages I find 103 that match the first and 130 that match the<BR>> > second. (I am searching on qt and sdl respectively in the package<BR>> > manager)<BR>> > <BR>> > How do I know which of these to install? <BR>>
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