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Distribution: SOLARIS/BSD-like, some Debian-like, some Arch-like, some GENTO-like, some RH-like, some slacky-like
Posts: 385
Rep:
vbox additions
still get an error but additions works so far. What can be missed here?
Code:
bash-5.1# lsmod |grep vbox
vboxsf 40960 1
vboxvideo 32768 0
drm_vram_helper 20480 1 vboxvideo
drm_kms_helper 266240 3 vmwgfx,drm_vram_helper,vboxvideo
drm 610304 8 vmwgfx,drm_kms_helper,drm_vram_helper,vboxvideo,drm_ttm_helper,ttm
vboxguest 45056 6 vboxsf
bash-5.1# /sbin/rcvboxadd quicksetup all
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Building the modules for kernel 5.10.17.
VirtualBox Guest Additions: Look at /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log to find out what
went wrong
bash-5.1# cat /var/log/vboxadd-setup.log
Building the main Guest Additions 6.1.20 module for kernel 5.10.17.
Error building the module. Build output follows.
make: error while loading shared libraries: libunistring.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
I'm not sure which Linux package provides "libunistring," but that's what you need to install next.
(This is a standard package for doing stuff involving "Unicode strings.")
The VBox package should have listed that as one of its "dependencies," so that it would be installed for you automatically, but apparently it wasn't ... and that should probably be reported to them as a bug.
Last edited by sundialsvcs; 07-20-2021 at 03:42 PM.
Distribution: SOLARIS/BSD-like, some Debian-like, some Arch-like, some GENTO-like, some RH-like, some slacky-like
Posts: 385
Original Poster
Rep:
Quote:
Originally Posted by sundialsvcs
I'm not sure which Linux package provides "libunistring," but that's what you need to install next.
(This is a standard package for doing stuff involving "Unicode strings.")
The VBox package should have listed that as one of its "dependencies," so that it would be installed for you automatically, but apparently it wasn't ... and that should probably be reported to them as a bug.
I installed Vbox guest additions on other slack guest and works like a charm first time, so I believe I am missing something here. Whenever I upgraded libunistring 0.9.3 to 0.9.10 system broke ...
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