Bruce, On Tuesday 06 October 2009, Bruce MacArthur wrote: > However, I am unable to understand the "Conflicting packages" diagnostic. > Perhaps it sees VirtualBox OSE version 2.1.4 as being in conflict, rather > than as ready to be replaced. If that is the case, do you have any idea > of how I can preserve my existing virtual machine (Windows XP Pro) and > its primary application -- Libronix, with MASSIVE data files!!!? If this > is NOT my real problem, can you suggest ways in which I can determine > what "conflict" is being detected?
You have currently the debian package 'virtualbox-2.1' installed. The package virtualbox-3.0_3.0.8-53138_Ubuntu_jaunty_i386.deb is a debian package 'virtualbox-3.0'. Note that 'virtualbox-2.1' and 'virtualbox-3.0' are two different conflicting packages. To be able to install the 3.0.8 package you have to remove the 'virtualbox-2.1' package. This naming was chosen to allow the user to stay with a stable branch of VirtualBox. If you are using a package manager and select virtualbox-3.0, the other package would be automatically unselected. So again, just remove the old virtualbox-2.1.4 package (your VMs wouldn't be harmed) and install VirtualBox 3.0.8. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems, Inc. www.sun.com
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