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vboxlinuxadditions

Asked by David Marchioni

I need the proper command line in Terminal to run; vboxlinuxadditions-amd64.run, i'll already be in /media/cdrom/ I do not know the proper format.

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Best Octavio (torn-acl) said : 		#1

try:

sudo sh vboxlinuxadditions-amd64.run

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David Marchioni (marchionidavid) said : 		#2

Thanks Octavio, that solved my question.

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David Marchioni (marchionidavid) said : 		#3

It worked case sensitive

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pintoo (pintooreddy) said : 		#4

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