Today we are going to see how to install Oracle Virtualbox in Fedora 13 Goddard which is the latest release from the Fedora Community.
- To install virtualbox we should first go to http://www.virtualbox.org.
- In the downloads section we can see Virtualbox for Linux hosts and if we follow that link we can see the Virtualbox for Fedora 13′s link.
- Depending on the architecture of OS installed download either i386 or AMD64 version.
- Now before installing it let us install 2 important packages namely gcc and kernel-devel packages.
For installing gcc open terminal and give the following command
#yum install gcc
Now to install kernels development package first find out the current kernel you are using.
#uname -r
See whether there is anything like “PAE” in the output of the above command. if so install the PAE kernels devel version. else normal version.
#yum install kernel-devel
or
#yum install kernel-PAE-devel
Now import the public key of virtualbox package using the command
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O-
| rpm --import -
Now navigate to the folder which contains the virtualbox downloaded package and give the command.
#yum localinstall VirtualBox-3.2-3.2.6_63112_fedora13-1.i686.rpm
The above command will pull out the necessary dependencies if any and will compile the kernel module too
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