[Bitnami package for WordPress] Guest Additions install unsuccessful

[DrippingMellow]

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Virtual Machine

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WordPress: No issues found Apache: No issues found Processes: No issues found Php: No issues found Resources: No issues found ? Connectivity: Found possible issues Mariadb: No issues found [Connectivity] Server ports 22, 80 and/or 443 are not publicly accessible. Please check the following guide to open server ports for remote access: https://docs.bitnami.com/general/faq/administration/use—firewaIl/

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I've tried multiple times to install guest Additions. Yet, it always is unsuccessful. I guess something might have changed.

[DrippingMellow]

I have use this How-to article to install it: Link

[gongomgra]

Hi @Stev110,

Thanks for using Bitnami. I have reproduced your issue. We are missing some libraries in our tutorial that are not installed by default in Debian 12. Please install the missing packages by running the command below, restart the machine, and then reinstall the VirtualBox Guest Additions as described in our guide. Running the VBoxLinuxAdditions.run tool again will remove the previous installation and install it from scratch.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install -y libxmu6 libxt6 dbus dbus-user-session

We will update our docs once you confirm your issue is fixed.

[DrippingMellow]

Hello @gongomgra,

Thanks for your help, I appreciate it. Yet I still have the issue. Where it tells me that it wasn't able to reload. I even tried to run it on multiple VM's, just to be sure and ended up with multiple issues along the way.

I'm sorry but it doesn't work.

Greetings

Edit: PS. I have to add, that I'm finally able to shut down the VM per APCI event, which wasn't possible before.

[DrippingMellow]

Hey, I seem to have fixed? the issue but also broke it at the same time...

Though I'm unsure what I've done, to make it work, but it certainly was thanks to your help @gongomgra! Here are things that I've found while searching for an answer (I really hope that this will help with finding the issue):

If there is anything else I can do to help, let me know please.

[gongomgra]

Hi @DrippingMellow,

I was able to reproduce your issue, and I have installed the following packages to solve it

sudo apt-get install -y libfltk1.3 libfltk1.3-dev

After that, the vbox-greeter binary can be executed on my machine

$ sudo /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-7.0.18/sbin/vbox-greeter
00:00:00.000058 main     vbox-greeter 7.0.18 r162988 (verbosity: 0) linux.amd64 (May  2 2024 08:33:34) release log
00:00:00.000060 main     Log opened 2024-05-27T12:14:49.050637000Z
00:00:00.000823 main     OS Product: Linux
00:00:00.000855 main     OS Release: 6.1.0-21-amd64
00:00:00.000885 main     OS Version: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.90-1 (2024-05-03)
00:00:00.000928 main     OS Service Pack: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.1.90-1 (2024-05-03)
00:00:00.000969 main     Executable: /opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-7.0.18/sbin/vbox-greeter
00:00:00.000970 main     Process ID: 886
00:00:00.000970 main     Package type: LINUX_64BITS_GENERIC
Can't open display:

Take into account that our virtual machines do not include a graphical desktop environment, so there must be some features that can't be enabled

[DrippingMellow]

Hi @gongomgra. Thank you verry much for your help & patience till now, the Guest Additions, seem to get loaded if the two packages you've last mentioned are really needed, is still puzzling me. Yet the bidirectional copy / paste | Drag & Drop still don't seem to work, as well as the inbuilt file access.

[gongomgra]

Hi @DrippingMellow,

I'm afraid we don't have enough knowledge on how the Guest Additions work internally. I guess some features depend on other requirements like having a desktop environment available, which our OVAs don't have by default. We recommend you to open a new question in a more specialized forum where people with more knowledge can provide you with further help on this.

We will also left this ticket open in case anyone else from the community can provide more information.

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