VirtualBox2.1 Bin how to get running? [solved]

paulh347 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 4

Apologies if I've been a numbskull and missed something...

Downloaded the virtualbox2.1 bin .sh file, ran it. Fails to run because it needs libcap.so.1
Some googling later and I find a recommendation to create a link to the current version of libcap.
I create the link and now Virtualbox fails to run with a 'invalid ELF header' error message.

Some more googling later and I find the gentoo bug forum and some overlays, got git and subversion compiled and got layman installed...

What do I do now? There was a reference to jokey's overly, so I (think) I got the overlay added, but when I try and sync it, it just tells me it's skipping the directory on my machine.

How do I find if I've got the ebuild anywhere? emerge --search just returns the regular 1.6 version.

Any help or pointers as to how to get this to work would be gratefully received.

Thanks in advance

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gimpel · Posted: Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:48 pm Post subject:

I just symlinked /lib64/libcap.so.1 -> /lib64/libcap.so.2.16
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SlashBeast · Retired Dev Joined: 23 May 2006 Posts: 2922

I just symlinked

paulh347 · n00b Joined: 13 Jan 2009 Posts: 4

Thankyou both for your replies.
Slashbeast; I did as you suggested and that worked just fine. I think I'd just created the links in /usr/lib before, not in the Virtualbox directory.
I had to emerge media-libs/libsdl as well to get it working.