[CentOS] virtualbox

Thu Jul 23 22:02:40 UTC 2020
Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>

On Thu, 23 Jul 2020 16:49:39 -0500
Chuck Campbell wrote:

> Has anyone gotten virtualbox to run on Centos8?

Yes.

It "just works" for me.

> I did the install, and  it complained about missing elflibs, so I installed those, and the 
> virtualbox install finished without any reported problems.

How did you install it?  I installed it with dnf using the VirtualBox rpm and didn't get any error messages.

I just checked and I don't have any "elflibs" rpms on this computer, either.  I do have elfutils-libelf, though, which may be something similar or may be entirely different.

Again, though, VirtualBox works fine here.   VirtualBox-6.1-6.1.12_139181_el8-1.x86_64 according to the output from the rpm -q command.

So all of this makes me wonder if the problem is the way that you installed it or what you did to satisfy the mystery dependency(?) on elflibs, whatever that actually may be.

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