Re: [Hampshire] Dumb dpkg/aptitude question

2008/6/6 Dr Adam J Trickett <adam.trickett@???>:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 at 12:50:16PM +0100, Richard Danter wrote:
>> I have a .deb file (it's the PUEL version of VirtualBox) that I want
>> to install on a headless server. dpkg -i reports lots of missing
>> dependencies and of course dpkg can't go and resolve them from the
>> usual repositories. Aptitude can get things from repositories but not
>> install a local .deb file (or am I missing something?).
>>
>> So what is the best way to install a local deb and resolve all the
>> dependencies? Is there no command line tool to do both local and
>> repository installation?
>>
>
> What is wrong with the VirtualBox-OSE edition in stock Debian (Lenny and
> later) or Ubuntu? I only ask as using vendor supplied debs is always
> best if you can. If you only need to run VirtualBox headless, i.e.
> without X then that's easy to arrange if you need.

I just found that the performance was not too good (I did a test on
another system) and using rdesktop to the PUEL version was much
better. The other system already had all the dependencies installed so
I am hitting this issue only on the headless server (Ubuntu 8.04
Server).

Rich