Thanks mimosa, i'll follow your pointers!

And yes, xmonad is really very nice (and extremely responsive, i find). Think: I'm not really a technician but as for me, i looked for a tiling window manager, because i do translations and i love to have side by side the original to my (before i used JWM ...

hi laprjns, thanks for your reply. I did what you suggested, but the result still is:

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sudo sh VirtualBox-5.2.8-121009-Linux_amd64.run
Passwort:
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation.............
VirtualBox Version 5.2.8 r121009 (2018-02-26T15 ...

My problem is this: i have a nice and working salix setup with xmonad as desktop. Now, i changed hthe internal hd of my laptop and i wanted to keep the previous INTERNAL hd as an external and bootable device with all the stuff on it. Now the problem is: while when attached to the internal sata ...

gapan thanks a lot!

I did, got an error msg about problems configuring vbox. I did what they proposed to do and then i got this:

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sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
vboxdrv.sh: Stopping VirtualBox services.
vboxdrv.sh: Building VirtualBox kernel modules.
This system is currently not set up to build kernel ...

Thanks gapan!

Sorry, if this is a dumb question: How do i install a binary into Salix? And which one?
For what i see they offer .deb and .rpm packages ...

TIA

I tried to install virtualbox from sourcery but the installation failed with this error:

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*** Building 'vboxdrv' module ***
make[1]: Verzeichnis „/usr/src/slapt-src/system/virtualbox-kernel/virtualbox-kernel-5.0.40/vboxdrv“ wird betreten
Makefile:195: *** Error: KERN_DIR does not point to a ...

My situation is this: I run - on top of xfce4 - xmonad. That worked pretty fine since, after an upgrade xmonad was not able to handle correctly the xfce4 panel (i don't know - and even less - inm understand the reason why). Now, tint2 panel is handled correctly and i want to substitute the default ...

I'm unable to install virtualbox regardless i do it via sourcery or by installing it piece by piece from sbo.

When i run the script delivered by i get the following errors in the log file:

VirtualBox 5.1.14 r112924 installer, built 2017-01-16T17:06:12Z.

Testing system setup...
Installing ...

Thanks gapan!

1) Which would be the Firefox version to get from the repos? I see there are several?
The one that slapt-get/gslapt upgrades to automatically.

Very likely , i do not see here something: But which one out of this three gslapt upgrades to automatically:

45.02.0esr-x86_64-1
45.02.0esr-x86_64-1 ...