Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] deb installer in Ubuntu 11.04

 

On Tue, May 3, 2011 at 21:32, james_jolin <james.jolin@gmail.com> 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

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