Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#6432 closed defect (wontfix)
RHEL: Yum install virtualbox-3.1 missing dependencies
| Reported by: | Nick | Owned by: | |
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| Component: | installer | Version: | VirtualBox 3.1.6 |
| Keywords: | rpm, yum | Cc: | |
| Guest type: | other | Host type: | Linux |
Description
I've just run yum install virtualbox-3.1 on a clean 'minimal' install of centos 5.4.
The rpm's install but you get the message saying virtualbox won't start until the kernal module is sorted... yum install gcc kernel-devel; /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup fixed the issue.
I suspect the rpm .SPEC file is missing gcc & kernel-devel as dependencies.
Cheers,
Nick
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No, that dependency was not added by intension. There are user compiling their own kernel. And it is not always clear which kernel-devel package to install because this package must fit the current kernel. The dependency could be kernel-devel which will install the latest kernel headers but if you don't run the latest kernel then this dependency wouldn't help. Have a look at the user manual, compiling the kernel module is described there.