Hi, I'm trying to install Virtualbox from the Fedora repositories, which appears to be coming from the Rpmfusion-free-updates repository, and it has a hard requires on VirtualBox-Server, so the server package is brought in with the install. The issue is the two packages have a number of files with the same name so they conflict with each other. Is this something that should be raised with the rpmfusion guys or should I just wait for it to be rectified as it is immediately obvious on install? I tried excluding the VirtualBox-server package but VirtualBox won't install without it.
regards, Steve
Den 2022-10-17 kl. 10:48, skrev Stephen Morris:
Hi, I'm trying to install Virtualbox from the Fedora repositories, which appears to be coming from the Rpmfusion-free-updates repository, and it has a hard requires on VirtualBox-Server, so the server package is brought in with the install. The issue is the two packages have a number of files with the same name so they conflict with each other. Is this something that should be raised with the rpmfusion guys or should I just wait for it to be rectified as it is immediately obvious on install? I tried excluding the VirtualBox-server package but VirtualBox won't install without it.
Since VirtualBox are in the RPM-Fusion Repro you should ask there. If I understand right, you are getting problem when you when you install VirtualBox, is that right? I have VirtualBox installed and hade no problem with the installation or running VirtualBox.
$ rpm -qa | grep -i virtualbox VirtualBox-kmodsrc-6.1.38-1.fc36.noarch akmod-VirtualBox-6.1.38-1.fc36.x86_64 VirtualBox-server-6.1.38-1.fc36.x86_64 VirtualBox-6.1.38-1.fc36.x86_64 virtualbox-guest-additions-6.1.38-1.fc36.x86_64 kmod-VirtualBox-5.19.13-200.fc36.x86_64-6.1.38-1.fc36.x86_64 kmod-VirtualBox-5.19.14-200.fc36.x86_64-6.1.38-1.fc36.x86_64 kmod-VirtualBox-5.19.15-201.fc36.x86_64-6.1.38-1.fc36.x86_64
regards, Steve
Den 2022-10-17 kl. 10:48, skrev Stephen Morris:
Hi,
I tried excluding the VirtualBox-server package but VirtualBox
won't install without it.
Why would you do that? You can't run VirtualBox without the server. Please read the information of the VirtualBox rpm:
rpm -qi VirtualBox VirtualBox-server
On 17/10/22 21:54, Jon Ingason via users wrote:
Den 2022-10-17 kl. 10:48, skrev Stephen Morris:
Hi,
I tried excluding the VirtualBox-server package but VirtualBox
won't install without it.
Why would you do that? You can't run VirtualBox without the server. Please read the information of the VirtualBox rpm:
rpm -qi VirtualBox VirtualBox-server
I was just trying that as a test. The issue I'm getting is a whole bunch of file conflicts between the Virtualbox and Virtualbox-server version that you have shown you have installed. Either I'm missing something or the duplicate files have been introduced after you installed the packages.
I'll need to try this again. I've just reinstalled Fedora 36 from scratch to resolve another issue and the rpmfusion repositories I have now are the nvidia and steam repositories.
I've installed the rpmfusion repositories and tried the VirtualBox install again and this time there was no issue.
regards,
Steve