VirtualBox binary not existing

Christoph Kukulies kuku at kukulies.org
Fri May 1 16:09:56 UTC 2020



> Am 01.05.2020 um 17:46 schrieb Yuri Pankov <ypankov at fastmail.com>:
> 
> Christoph Kukulies wrote:
>> The installation (pkg install of the recommended packages:
>> # pkg search virtualbox
>> phpvirtualbox-5.2.1            AJAX Web Interface for VirtualBox
>> virtualbox-ose-5.2.34_4        General-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware
>> virtualbox-ose-additions-5.2.34_2 VirtualBox additions for FreeBSD guests
>> virtualbox-ose-additions-nox11-5.2.34_2 VirtualBox additions for FreeBSD guests
>> virtualbox-ose-kmod-5.2.34     VirtualBox kernel module for FreeBSD
>> virtualbox-ose-nox11-5.2.34_4  General-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware
> 
> So which packages exactly did you install?
> 


In that order :)

I now know it was wrong.

>> and executing the steps in the FreeBSD handbook on VirtualBox installation I ended up in
>> # VirtualBox
>> -su: VirtualBox: not found
>> #
> 
> Presuming you did install the correct package, is your shell (t)csh where you need to `rehash`?


I was used to use sh (Bourne sh) under root 21 years ago. So I switched it back from csh to sh.
Wondering why they switched to csh anyway. It is a tastelessness. ;)


—
Christoph




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