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Building VirtualBox from Source

Building VirtualBox from Source

Introduction
Download
Pre-requisites
Compile
Installation

Introduction

This document has been copied from the following, which you should read as your primary source.

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux%20build%20instructions

I also found the following (suitably adapted for Debian) to be most useful:

http://www.howtoforge.com/virtualbox_ubuntu

Although I could not get subversion working from behind our proxy server, the source for 1.5.2 was downloadable at the following site.

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Download

Download Open Source Edition (OSE) from VirtualBox:

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

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Pre-requisites

Install the following pre-requisites:

# apt-get install gcc g++ bcc iasl xsltproc xalan libxalan110-dev uuid-dev zlib1g-dev libidl-dev libsdl1.2-dev libxcursor-dev libqt3-headers libqt3-mt-dev libasound2-dev libstdc++5 libhal-dev

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Compile

# sudo su
# ./configure
# . env.sh  << Note the space between the '.' and 'env'
# kmk all

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Installation

# cd out/linux.x86/release/bin/src
# make
# make install
# cd ..

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