How to install Virtualbox on OpenSUSE 12.3
This quick tutorial is going to show you How to install Virtualbox on OpenSUSE 12.3. Its pretty easy to install Virtualbox 4.2 on OpenSUSE 12.3. If you are OpenSUSE 12.3 users, you may follow this tutorial below to install Virtualbox on OpenSUSE 12.3
Step 1. Download Virtualbox 4.2 for OpenSUSE
- http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.0_80737_openSUSE114-1.i586.rpm (32bit)
- http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.0/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.0_80737_openSUSE114-1.x86_64.rpm (64 bit)
Step 2. Virtualbox requires linpng.so.0 to install. So we need to install this package first.
su
zypper in libpng12.so.0
rpm -ivh VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.0_80737_openSUSE114-1.i586.rpm
or
rpm -ivh VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.0_80737_openSUSE114-1.x86_64.rpm
That's it. Now you can start using Virtualbox on OpenSUSE 12.3.
Note: Currently, OpenSUSE 12.3 is still in development. We do not recommend to use this version on production machines.