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 that impression? You can definitely install a Debian System including Iceweasel and Icedove with amd64 _only_. My user agent is likely to be "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/24.5.0" or such. Just to make sure: ~$ aptitude show icedove Package: icedove State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 24.5.0-1~deb7u1 Priority: optional Section: mail Maintainer: Christoph Goehre <ch...@sigxcpu.org> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 57.1 M Depends: [...] Recommends: myspell-en-us | hunspell-dictionary | myspell-dictionary Suggests: fonts-lyx, libgssapi-krb5-2, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.20.0) Conflicts: icedove [...] => An amd64 version exists in standard Debian > Nice idea about using the VirtualBox:amd64 program but no joy. The > program requires a 64 bit version of a Python library that is not > included in the distro. Somebody needs to correct this. It must be included, because I have installed it using Debian sources only (also cf. https://packages.debian.org/wheezy/amd64/python2.7/download): ~$ aptitude show virtualbox Package: virtualbox State: installed Automatically installed: no Version: 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3 Priority: optional Section: otherosfs Maintainer: Debian Virtualbox Team <pkg-virtualbox-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 45.8 M Depends: libc6 (>= 2.6), libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libgsoap2, libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libpython2.7 (>= 2.7), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11), libssl1.0.0 (>= 1.0.0), libstdc++6 (>= 4.6), libvncserver0, libx11-6, libxcursor1 (> 1.1.2), libxext6, libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxmu6, libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4), python (>= 2.6.6-7~), python (< 2.8), python2.7, adduser PreDepends: dpkg (>= 1.15.6~) Recommends: virtualbox-dkms (= 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3) | virtualbox-source (= 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3), virtualbox-qt (= 4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libqt4-opengl (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtcore4 (>= 4:4.5.3), libqtgui4 (>= 4:4.5.3) Suggests: virtualbox-guest-additions-iso, vde2 [...] ~$ aptitude show python2.7 Package: python2.7 State: installed Automatically installed: yes Version: 2.7.3-6+deb7u2 Priority: standard Section: python Maintainer: Matthias Klose <d...@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Uncompressed Size: 9,053 k Depends: python2.7-minimal (= 2.7.3-6+deb7u2), mime-support, libbz2-1.0, libc6 (>= 2.11), libdb5.1, libexpat1 (>= 2.1~beta3), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1), libncursesw5 (>= 5.6+20070908), libreadline6 (>= 6.0), libsqlite3-0 (>= 3.5.9), libtinfo5 Suggests: python2.7-doc, binutils Conflicts: python-profiler (<= 2.7.1-2), python-profiler (<= 2.7.1-2), python2.7 [...] > Any ideas will be sincerely appreciated. I really need to get this > problem solved. As others already suggested, you are likely to use a mixed AMD64 + i386 system which confuses the automatic installation of Virtualbox' kernel modules. You could start by comparing your sources.list and architecture using $ apt-cache policy Package files: 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status release a=now 500 file:/data/programs/repo/ squeeze/main i386 Packages release v=6.0.6,o=Linux-Fan, Ma_Sys.ma,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Ma_Sys.ma MDVL Repository,c=main 500 file:/data/programs/repo/ squeeze/main amd64 Packages release v=6.0.6,o=Linux-Fan, Ma_Sys.ma,a=stable,n=squeeze,l=Ma_Sys.ma MDVL Repository,c=main 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/non-free Translation-en 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/main Translation-en 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/contrib Translation-en 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/non-free i386 Packages release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=non-free origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/contrib i386 Packages release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=contrib origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/main i386 Packages release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=main origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/non-free amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=non-free origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/contrib amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=contrib origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy-updates/main amd64 Packages release o=Debian,a=stable-updates,n=wheezy-updates,l=Debian,c=main origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/non-free Translation-en 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main Translation-en 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/contrib Translation-en 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/non-free i386 Packages release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free origin security.debian.org 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/contrib i386 Packages release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib origin security.debian.org 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main i386 Packages release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=main origin security.debian.org 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/non-free amd64 Packages release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=non-free origin security.debian.org 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/contrib amd64 Packages release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=contrib origin security.debian.org 500 http://security.debian.org/ wheezy/updates/main amd64 Packages release v=7.0,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian-Security,c=main origin security.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/non-free Translation-en 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main Translation-en 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/contrib Translation-en 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/non-free i386 Packages release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=non-free origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/contrib i386 Packages release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=contrib origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main i386 Packages release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=main origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/non-free amd64 Packages release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=non-free origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/contrib amd64 Packages release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=contrib origin ftp.de.debian.org 500 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages release v=7.5,o=Debian,a=stable,n=wheezy,l=Debian,c=main origin ftp.de.debian.org Pinned packages: $ dpkg --print-architecture amd64 with some expected standard output like mine (except for the MDVL-stuff of course). Hope that helps more than my previous answer Linux-Fan -- http://masysma.ohost.de/
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