[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] BUG: virtualbox-ose 1.5.6-dfsg-2~bpo40+1:

[Michael Meskes]

On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:55:56PM +0200, Néstor Amigo Cairo wrote:
> ln: creating symbolic link `/etc/udev/rules.d/z60_virtualbox-ose.rules' to
> `../virtualbox-ose.rules': File exists

Could you please remove the package and then check whether this file
exists?

> What can be wrong with the package?? Of course, I have tried to reinstall if
> after removing those files by hand.

You mean you removed the files and still got this error message?

I just tried:
root at feivel:/# apt-get install --reinstall virtualbox-ose
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 reinstalled, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/6427kB of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 53408 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace virtualbox-ose 1.5.6-dfsg-2~bpo40+1 (using
.../virtualbox-ose_1.5.6-dfsg-2~bpo40+1_i386.deb) ...
Shutting down VirtualBox host networking ...done.
Unpacking replacement virtualbox-ose ...
Setting up virtualbox-ose (1.5.6-dfsg-2~bpo40+1) ...
Starting VirtualBox host networking ...done.

As you can see, no problem at all.

Michael
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