On Tue, Mar 20, 2012 at 11:12:22AM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> After my moan about the Extension Pack I'm now stuck trying to install
> it (on xubuntu 11.10 host).
> 
> In the VirtualBox help it says "To install an extension, simply
> double-click on the package file, and the VirtualBox Manager will guide
> you through the required steps.", very funny!  I don't run a GUI file
> manager so that's not really practical.
> 
> I can unpack and extract the contents OK but there's nothing obvious to
> run to install it and no instructions of any sort anywhere.
> 
> I did actually try running up a GUI file manager and double-clicked on
> the downloaded file, I just get an error:-
> 
>     Failed to open the Extension Pack 
> /tmp/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-4.1.10-76795.vbox-extpack.
> 
>     RTZipGzipDecompressIoStream failed: VERR_ZIP_BAD_HEADER
> 
> So, any ideas as to what to actually do?
> 
It's OK, I've finally made it, the above error was (of course) because I
had already uncompressed the file.  I recompressed it and then I could
install it.

Still, I think low level (i.e. command line) instructions for
installation would be useful.

-- 
Chris Green

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