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Problems Installing Virtualbox Package

I'm unable to install the latest 4.14 deb package from the Oracle Virtualbox site on a fresh Debian Linux installation for some reason:

Code:

cmennens@tuna:~/downloads$ ls -l

total 68712

-rw-r--r-- 1 cmennens users 70360054 May 16 14:14 virtualbox-4.1_4.1.14-77440~Debian~squeeze_amd64.deb

Now when I run the installer, I see it fails to properly install because I'm missing the libssl package but when I try to install the libssl package, I get caught in some kind of loop...

Code:

cmennens@tuna:~/downloads$ sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-4.1_4.1.14-77440~Debian~squeeze_amd64.deb

[sudo] password for cmennens: 

Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-4.1.

(Reading database ... 109336 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking virtualbox-4.1 (from virtualbox-4.1_4.1.14-77440~Debian~squeeze_amd64.deb) ...

dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-4.1:

 virtualbox-4.1 depends on libssl0.9.8 (>= 0.9.8m-1); however:

  Package libssl0.9.8 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing virtualbox-4.1 (--install):

 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured

Processing triggers for shared-mime-info ...

Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ...

Processing triggers for gnome-menus ...

Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ...

Errors were encountered while processing:

 virtualbox-4.1

I appear to have libssl 1.0.0 installed:

Code:

cmennens@tuna:~/downloads$ sudo apt-cache policy libssl1.0.0

libssl1.0.0:

  Installed: 1.0.1c-1

  Candidate: 1.0.1c-1

  Version table:

 *** 1.0.1c-1 0

        500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ wheezy/main amd64 Packages

        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Any ideas on how I can move forward on this? This deb package was for Debian 6 but I'm guessing Wheezy should also be fine too, no? Yes I know that 'virtualbox-ose' is available from the Debian repos but it's 4.12 and we need to test the 4.14 changes to move ahead. Thanks for any info!

If you are trying to install to Wheezy/Testing package libssl.9.8 is not in repositories for Testing it is however in Stable and Sid. I downloaded the one from Stable and it worked just fine. Be aware that Virtualbox now has a Wheezy .deb, I have not tried it yet so can't say how well it works.

Quote:

Originally Posted by 62chevy (Post 4680216)

If you are trying to install to Wheezy/Testing package libssl.9.8 is not in repositories for Testing it is however in Stable and Sid.

That's bad :(
I do need libssl0.9.8 for utorrent server and another standalone app that uses authentication etc and they probably won't be updated for libssl1.0.0. And it is NOT available for unstable, since debports are not actual packages.

Quote:

Originally Posted by jim_p (Post 4680555)

Unstable has what you want. http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libssl1.0.0

It does not suit me :P
Package libssl1.0.0 has library libssl.so.1.0.0 (can't remember the path now) while I need libssl.so.0.9.8 on the same or similar path. I do have both libraries installed, but I can not risk removing the old one.