Problems with the virtual box instalation.

[Lyecdevf]

Some one suggested to me to try with an application called virtualbox to get virtualization on my box. However, I am having problems with this software as well.

when I try to install it gives me this error:

Please close the other application e.g. 'updater Mananger', 'aptitude' or 'synaptic' first.

I am not sure if the problem has been created by me breaking the installation process before it ended. It was lasting too long!

[computathug]

i agree this could have been caused from the failure to load fully. If you loaded the package using

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 apt-get install

then try and use

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 apt-get remove virtualbox

to remove the package and then start again.

dont forget to use

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apt-get update

as well and see if any package need updating

then try the install again

hope this helps

[DNR]

Drivers usually should be installed last, after the OS. All the Novell Netware consoles and servers I installed, you had to do commandline entries until the install was 80% complete at least. 'synaptic' is likely your pointing device, and update mgr could be another programs auto-updater.

At least disable those drivers from starting up, do a cold boot, and try again.

DNR

[DNR]

BTW, I checked out virtualbox and RTFM,

You might have to reregister/register those drivers
they say the commandline is comregister.cmd
There is special intructions
"
VBoxSVC.exe must not be running, so use the Windows task manager to verify this. Usually VBoxSVC.exe terminates automatically after 5 seconds of inactivity (i.e. no client connection) but especially when developing, it might sometimes stay around. In case the COM classes change (this usually happens when the file VirtualBox.xidl is updated) and you forget to reregister the classes, weird problems may appear.
"
yadayadayada..

and this..
"
If you have cygwin installed on your computer, you might have problems building if your have active cygwin programs or you might have problems starting cygwin programs when the VirtualBox build is running. To fix this, copy the cygwin1.dll from your cygwin installation (usually c:/cygwin/bin/cygwin1.dll) to kBuild/bin/x86.bin/cygwin1.dll.
"

Every OS/NOS has its pecularities.

DNR

[Lyecdevf]

VBoxSVC.exe must not be running, so use the Windows task manager to verify this.

I am not running windows. I am running Ubuntu 7.04.

The virtual box is a deb installer. So I just double click it.

[computathug]

try to rename the lock file, another one will be created if necessary.

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sudo mv /var/cache/apt/archives/lock /var/cache/apt/archives/lock_bak

[Lyecdevf]

This is the answer I got:

mv: cannot stat `/var/cache/apt/archives/lock': No such file or directory