[arch-general] VirtualBox

[Burlynn Corlew Jr (velcroshooz)]

On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 9:11 AM, Carlos Mennens <carloswill at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Lukas Fleischer
> <archlinux at cryptocrack.de> wrote:
> > You need to install sdl if you want to use the VirtualBox GUI, have a
> > look at the optional deps.
>
> I installed that and yes I want to use the GUI but its dependency
> after dependency and it doesn't seem to end...
>
> Is there no way just to install are required dependencies?
>
> Just for VirtualBox I have installed:
>
>  sudo pacman -S libxcursor
>  sudo pacman -S sdl
>  sudo pacman -S fontconfig
>
> And now it's still complaining about "libXi.so.6"...Is there no way
> just to resolve everything or locate all required dependencies?
>

Try using an aur helper - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Aur_helpers The
big ones are clyde, packer, yaourt. they ought to help you with the
dependency issues.