Sun VirtualBox 2.1.0 calls for libcap.so.1 - how to support

stardotstar

I read that libcap.so.1 is not in portage (perhaps I could make it pull in 2 which is more secure(?) and link to it but it seems messy.

VirtualBox needs it - with version 2.1.0 - wasn't required for 2.0.4 .

Since I am not running VirtualBox out of portage and let it do its thing in /opt I need a stable way of providing for its dependency.

What is the best way to do this?

Find and instal the necessary libcap in /lib where it will be in the search path?

uses sym links somehow?

TIA
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jw5801 · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:54 pm Post subject:

There's a bug about this, if you'd like to take a look at the discussion there.

stardotstar · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:49 am Post subject:

hmm, thank you - I didn;t hunt that down and now I see I am at:

jw5801 · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 7:23 am Post subject:

Yeah, I'm following that bug to see if any solutions develop. For the moment I'm sticking with 2.0.6, as it seems to work pretty well.

Exil · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 8:19 am Post subject:

linking works for me.

ln -s /lib/libcap.so.2 /lib/libcap.so.1

Insanity5902 · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject:

Just to add this to the thread, until an official solution is added to the portage tree, you can install virtualbox via jokey's overlay, and if it doesn't work for you out of the install you can add an symlink inside /opt/virtualbox so it doesn't affect the system.

Not sure if this works yet or not, but a simple `ln -s /lib/libcap.so /opt/VirtualBox/libcap.so.1` should take care of it.
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stardotstar · Posted: Mon Dec 29, 2008 11:57 pm Post subject:

the sym link works fine for the record.

nb that is using the sun provided distribution of the bin not the overlay.

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