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    Oracle Virtualbox update fails

    I have Vb hosted on Oneric running on my inspiron e1405. I'm unable to update Virtualbox 4.1.2 from Oracle, when I try to update this is the message I get:
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    W: Failed to fetch http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/oneiric/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
    I need Virtualbox for a few Windows tasks, but if I can't get this working I'll have to go back to double booting...
    Please help...

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    Re: Oracle Virtualbox update fails

    Did you install it from the PPA?

    This walk-through has it listed about 2/3rds the way down the checklist. I tried it yesterday, and it installed fine from the PPA.

    https://debianhelp.wordpress.com/201...neiric-ocelot/

    Quote Originally Posted by intruderukr View Post
    I have Vb hosted on Oneric running on my inspiron e1405. I'm unable to update Virtualbox 4.1.2 from Oracle, when I try to update this is the message I get:
    HTML Code:
    W: Failed to fetch http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/oneiric/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'contrib/source/Sources' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
    I need Virtualbox for a few Windows tasks, but if I can't get this working I'll have to go back to double booting...
    Please help...

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    Re: Oracle Virtualbox update fails

    according to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

    the correct entry for oneiric is:

    Code:
    deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib

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    Re: Oracle Virtualbox update fails

    Quote Originally Posted by Lampi View Post
    according to https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

    the correct entry for oneiric is:

    Code:
    deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian oneiric contrib
    ok, maybe that works. There were a few PPA's listed on my sources for virtualbox and I deleted them all and added yours. Now my update errors look like this:
    W:GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net oneiric Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 360D382BFC695405, W:Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/p...source/Sources 404 Not Found
    , W:Failed to fetch http://ppa.launchpad.net/tualatrix/p...-i386/Packages 404 Not Found
    , E:Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

    An issue for another thread of course...thanks so much for your help!

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    Re: Oracle Virtualbox update fails

    I had the same problem. Still haven't directly solved it, but it does work to instead install using:


    sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1

    From the direction at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

    This installed the latest version and retained my previous VMs and settings.
    Last edited by jbest; May 2nd, 2012 at 08:06 PM. Reason: formatting

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    Re: Oracle Virtualbox update fails

    Oracle doesn't distribute the source code. In Synaptic, go to Settings>Repositories>Other Software and uncheck the (Source Code) entry for virtualbox.org and the "Failed to fetch" message will no longer appear. Also, as I am installing this for the first time, I noticed that there are two entrys for finding Virtualbox in the repositories: "virtualbox" is from the ubuntu repository, where "virtualbox-4.1" is from the virtualbox.org repository. Hope this helps.

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    Re: Oracle Virtualbox update fails

    I had the same problem and its true the issue was that when I added the repository to the sources list an additional entry was added with a suffix of source. I just opened up the update manager select Settings from the bottom and deleted the entry with the source suffix.

    Then the usual from the terminal.

    sudo apt-get update
    sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1

    and it was all smooth sailing no errors! I hope that helps.

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    Re: Oracle Virtualbox update fails

    Thanks for your post ampedlp... this fixed my issue!!!

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    Re: Oracle Virtualbox update fails

    Quote Originally Posted by jbest View Post
    I had the same problem. Still haven't directly solved it, but it does work to instead install using:


    sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1

    From the direction at https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

    This installed the latest version and retained my previous VMs and settings.
    Thanks! that helped me, after some unsuccessful advices...

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    Re: Oracle Virtualbox update fails

    Quote Originally Posted by pamasz View Post
    Thanks! that helped me, after some unsuccessful advices...

    This is an old thread and 4.1 is the old version. Did you follow the instructions here:

    https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

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