Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-12 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Klimov writes: [...] > > For me, the last Oracle-released Virtualbox package that got installed > was a recent 5.0.x one. The 5.1.x need qt5 and some differently-named > packages as dependencies, so there were efforts to roll OI's own. I > did not yet look into replacing its config-scripts o

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Klimov writes: >>The newest patch is almost 2 yrs old. The newest vbox version (5.1.22) >> >>is from last month I think... >> >>So before I bugger something up with my ill-informed bungling, can >>anyone say if this newest patch is likely to work with vbox 5.1.22 or >>should I be getting an

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-11 Thread Jim Klimov
On May 11, 2017 9:49:24 PM GMT+03:00, Harry Putnam wrote: >Jim Klimov writes: > >> The error message sounds like something that my >> https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh tries to alleviate. >Indeed, >> after the different Solaris and illumos distros split ways, it became >> very difficult

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Jim Klimov writes: > The error message sounds like something that my > https://github.com/jimklimov/vboxconfig_sh tries to alleviate. Indeed, > after the different Solaris and illumos distros split ways, it became > very difficult to guess for a script whether a needed kernel/feature > level is a

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-11 Thread Harry Putnam
Will Brokenbourgh writes: [...] >> So when I went to run thru installing the newest 5.1.22...I'm told >> there is a VBox already installed... so `pkgrm SUNWvbox', but that fails >> with what sounds like an unusual error (Failed to parse the Solaris >> kernel major version): >> >>pkgrm SUNWvb

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-10 Thread Jim Klimov
On May 11, 2017 3:22:13 AM GMT+03:00, Will Brokenbourgh wrote: >On 05/10/2017 04:27 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> I was working toward rounding up information as to why recent vbox >> versions are not installable (in gui format), on openindiana >> >> As I recall it had to do with vbox recent builds

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-10 Thread Will Brokenbourgh
On 05/10/2017 04:27 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: I was working toward rounding up information as to why recent vbox versions are not installable (in gui format), on openindiana As I recall it had to do with vbox recent builds depending on a gcc install older than that installed on hipster ... at leas

[OpenIndiana-discuss] Cannot install or uninstall Vbox older version blocking the way

2017-05-10 Thread Harry Putnam
I was working toward rounding up information as to why recent vbox versions are not installable (in gui format), on openindiana As I recall it had to do with vbox recent builds depending on a gcc install older than that installed on hipster ... at least since 161030 releases. I hoped to record th