--- In LINUX_Newbies@yahoogroups.com, J <dreadpiratejeff@...> wrote:
>
> On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 21:32, james_jolin <james.jolin@...> wrote:
> > I recently got the upgrade notice for Vbox. I downloaded the upgrade and unlike before the deb installer did not come up to do the
> > install. For the life of me I cannot find what is missing. This did not happen with Ubuntu 10,10. Anyone with some ideas??
> > Jim
>
>
> Open a terminal.
>
> sudo dpkg -i /path/to/virtualbox-file.deb
>
> that's the quick way. As for why the package installer didn't launch,
> who knows... my first guess would be that an update to your browser
> broke/deleted the mime type for .debs
>
Tried the dpkg on the terminal. It worked this time. Will have to check the mime type...the new browser is firefox 4.x
Jim
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