On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Victor Vahe Kevorkian wrote: > The download went on and started the installation when mid way it stopped > and the following Error > poped out:"Error were encountered while processing: E: > /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-2.1_2.1.2-41885%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.de >b: > > trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-386/misc/vboxdrv.ko', which is > also in package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-23-386"
That means that you are trying to install the PUEL package (contributed by Sun) but still have some module package of your distribution installed. > I couldnt understand why using Synaptic Package I was getting an error so I > searched Ubuntu Forums and I found this Link: > http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-install-virtualbox-21-in-ubuntu-810-intrep >id-ibex804-hardy-heron.html > > I followed all steps and I reached to : sudo apt-get install virtualbox-2.1 > which proceeded until... > "The following NEW packages will be installed: > virtualbox-2.1 > 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 18 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B/37.9MB of archives. > After this operation, 77.8MB of additional disk space will be used. > Preconfiguring packages ... > (Reading database ... 514416 files and directories currently installed.) > Unpacking virtualbox-2.1 (from > .../virtualbox-2.1_2.1.2-41885%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.deb) ... > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-2.1_2.1.2-41885%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.de >b (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/lib/modules/2.6.24-23-386/misc/vboxdrv.ko', which is > also in package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-23-386 > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) > Errors were encountered while processing: > > /var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-2.1_2.1.2-41885%5fUbuntu%5fhardy_i386.de >b E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > It seems to me the same error, which I really dont understand. > > I lost version 1.5.6 and I am left with an error. Please do the following: sudo dpkg --purge virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-23-386 Search in your synaptic installer for any further packages named virtualbox-* something. Please purge these packages as well. After that, install the virtualbox-2.1 package again. Kind regards, Frank -- Dr.-Ing. Frank Mehnert Sun Microsystems http://www.sun.com/
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