Virtual box location
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Virtual box location
I did an install of virtual box in the terminal. Even rebooted. Checked around but cannot see where it's located at. When it gets installed where does it shoe and what name is it using?
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SOLVED Re: Virtual box location
Found it after much trouble and looking. How was I to know it's not called 'Virtual Box' once it's installed? Don't make much sense but after screwing around looking for it finally located.
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Reason: as in Oracle VM VirtualBox
Reason: as in Oracle VM VirtualBox
Debian testing
Hp Pav a1440n
820 Intel Pent D procces 2 process cores, 2.0GB mem,250GB HD, NVIDA GeForce 7300LE, Intel ViiV.
ASUS A53SD-TS72 Intel Cor i7-2670QM 2.20GHz, 8GB DDR3, 750GB HDD, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 610M, Mint LMDE2 64 bit.
Hp Pav a1440n
820 Intel Pent D procces 2 process cores, 2.0GB mem,250GB HD, NVIDA GeForce 7300LE, Intel ViiV.
ASUS A53SD-TS72 Intel Cor i7-2670QM 2.20GHz, 8GB DDR3, 750GB HDD, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 610M, Mint LMDE2 64 bit.
Re: Virtual box location
Well, the executable has the same name as the package: virtualboxFound it after much trouble and looking. How was I to know it's not called 'Virtual Box' once it's installed?
There are a few things you can do to make that easier:
- select package "virtualbox" in synaptic -> Rt-click -> Properties -> Installed files. Look for "bin".
- look at what the system menu item for v-box actually does
- look for files with part of the name:
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sudo find / -iname "*virtual*" | grep bin
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#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -lt 1 ]
then
echo Usage: `basename $0` pattern
exit 1
fi
echo $PATH | sed 's/^/ls -A /' | sed 's/:/ |grep '$1'; ls -A /g' | sed 's/$/ |grep '$1'/' | bash | sort
exit 0
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VirtualBox
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virtualbox
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Re: SOLVED Re: Virtual box location
On MATE I can type in "virtual" in the menu and it comes up with "Oracle VM Virtualbox".Georgia boy wrote:Found it after much trouble and looking. How was I to know it's not called 'Virtual Box' once it's installed? Don't make much sense but after screwing around looking for it finally located.

Re: Virtual box location
That just returns a fake name; it doesn't tell him the name of the executable or where it is.Fred Barclay: On MATE I can type in "virtual" in the menu and it comes up with "Oracle VM Virtualbox"
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Re: Virtual box location
That's true, but I'm not exactly sure if by location he meansFlemur wrote: That just returns a fake name; it doesn't tell him the name of the executable or where it is.
/usr/bin/virtualbox
or the location on the menu. 
Re: SOLVED Re: Virtual box location
The same is true in Cinnamon. To my understanding of the OP this is, what he is looking for.Fred Barclay wrote:On MATE I can type in "virtual" in the menu and it comes up with "Oracle VM Virtualbox".
Problem might be, that he did not install all needed packages. It sounds, as if he installed the version from the repositories, which is far outdated and full of bugs.
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Re: Virtual box location
On my Debian Pc at the moment so don't exactly know what it's called in the applications but it's not Virtual Box. When doing the install from the terminal I told it to install Virtual box, guest addon's etc. Went back to the Synaptic and double checked that they were installed. After going back to the applications and checking each section I found some kind of PC virtual or something like that. Clicked on it and Orical Virtual Box showed and opened up. Got it all setup to run and am playing with it. Popped Fedora on it to check out the differences between it and the Debian and it's spins. Will have to find a cheat sheet for the commands on it but acting nice so far. Might do an install of it also.
Reason for the post though was because I didn't see anything saying Virtual Box or Orical listed in the applications. Just found it by playing around and checking.
Reason for the post though was because I didn't see anything saying Virtual Box or Orical listed in the applications. Just found it by playing around and checking.
Debian testing
Hp Pav a1440n
820 Intel Pent D procces 2 process cores, 2.0GB mem,250GB HD, NVIDA GeForce 7300LE, Intel ViiV.
ASUS A53SD-TS72 Intel Cor i7-2670QM 2.20GHz, 8GB DDR3, 750GB HDD, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 610M, Mint LMDE2 64 bit.
Hp Pav a1440n
820 Intel Pent D procces 2 process cores, 2.0GB mem,250GB HD, NVIDA GeForce 7300LE, Intel ViiV.
ASUS A53SD-TS72 Intel Cor i7-2670QM 2.20GHz, 8GB DDR3, 750GB HDD, 2GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 610M, Mint LMDE2 64 bit.
Re: Virtual box location
If you installed virtualbox then dpkg will list it. What does this return
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dpkg -l|grep -i virtualbox

