On Saturday 11 April 2009, John Francis Lee wrote: > Frank Mehnert wrote: > > On Saturday 11 April 2009, John Francis Lee wrote: > >> John Francis Lee wrote: > >>> What do I need to do to upgrade VirtualBox 21. to 2.1? > >> > >> That's from 2.1.4 to 2.2, sorry, > > > > Which host is that? Linux / Debian or Ubuntu? In that case, select the > > virtualbox-2.2 package and unselect virtualbox-2.1 in the same time. > > Sorry, it's ubuntu 8.10. I have downloaded > > virtualbox-2.2_2.2.0-45846_Ubuntu_intrepid_i386.deb > > but when I try to install it I'm told > > Error: conflicts with the installed package 'virtual-box 2.1' > > Do you mean that I can have both versions installed and switch between > them? How?
If you are installing the package using dpkg do dpkg -r virtualbox-2.1 dpkg -i virtualbox-2.2_2.2.0-45846_Ubuntu_intrepid_i386.deb No worry, after removing the virtualbox-2.1 package your VMs will not be touched. If you added the repository line like described at http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads to /etc/apt/source.list, you can use a package manager. For instance, if you are using dselect, then after selecting the virtualbox-2.2, the manager will tell you that this package conflicts with virtualbox-2.1 and it will give you the chance to remove the virtualbox-2.1 package in the same turn. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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