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Hi,
I'm having difficulty in sourcing help on installing Virtualbox 4.1 and it's extensions in Mepis 11. Can anybody help me with this? Thank you in anticipation...

Michael

A good resource is the manual. For Mepis 11 it is in section 9.4. The manual link is at the top of the Forum index page.

Hi,
Thank you for your help in pointing me to the relevant section in the manual. I carried out the relevant instructions at the Terminal and in Synaptic. However when I tried to reload package information I got errors of the form 'failed to fetch ftp://ftp.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.m ... elease.gpg Something wicked happened resolving 'ftp.mirrorservice.org:ftp' (-5 - No address associated with hostname)'. When I searched in Synaptic there were virtualbox files there, although not 'Virtualbox' by name. Furthermore all files were version 3.2.x.x..., not version 4.1 The following lines are included in my /etc/apt/souces.list file...

deb ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/ squeeze main contrib non-free


If I do decide to download directly from the Oracle site, should I download the .deb file associated with the most recent version of Ubuntu(Natty) or Debian(Squeeze)?

Regards.

I assume you are using Mepis 11. You would need to download the debian (squeeze) version.

Apparently the version in the repos is not the latest.

What you see in the default repos are the OSE (opensource) virtualbox packages.

I would add this repo:which will allow you to install the latest version {currently 4.1.2-73507~Debian~squeeze}

Did they fix the hang on shutdown?

I installed it on both 32 bit and 64 bit Mepis 11 and both shut down fine with this version. I had that problem with previous 4.1 and had to revert back to 4.0. Seems OK but have only run for about ten minutes but seems good.

Also seems to run well here (32-bit). I've tried database, graphics and printing with no problems, and shutdown was clean.

I've had an 'unknown media type' error on installing the last few versions of VBox - the same each time, but it doesn't affect anything. Is there anything I can do to eliminate it? Screenshot:

blue devil is related to bluetooth. unless you plan on using bt with vbox, ignore it. not all warnings/errors are bad, rather the install is trying to do something that you're system is either not configured for, or simply lacks - likely in this case you have no bluetooth enabled

Thanks - That's about what I thought, which is why I've ignored it until now.