Noob can't install VirtualBox 4.1.8 onto Solaris 11 11/11

Question

deepest apologies if this being posted in the wrong forum; moderators: please move as appropriate.
i have been trying for 3 days to install VirtualBox onto Solaris 11 ... unyielding frustration.
i followed the user's manual punctiliously: signed in as root, gunzip'd VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.tar.gz to /home/nweissma/Desktop and then pkgadd .. THE TERMINAL OUTPUT FOLLOWS:
Password:
Oracle Corporation     SunOS 5.11     11.0     November 2011
root@new-host:~# cd /home/nweissma/Desktop
root@new-host:/home/nweissma/Desktop *# ls*
addmoresoftware.desktop Terminal_VBInstallFrustration
autoresponse VB-Install_NowWhat.png
LICENSE VB-Install_WhatNow_2.png
os-next-steps.desktop VB-Install_WhatNow_3.png
ReadMe.txt VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS-r75467.pkg
root@new-host:/home/nweissma/Desktop *# pkgadd -d VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.pkg*
pkgadd: ERROR: attempt to process datastream failed
- open of <VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.pkg> failed, errno=2
pkgadd: ERROR: could not process datastream from <VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.pkg>
root@new-host:/home/nweissma/Desktop# cd ..
what am i doing wrong?
before rukbat gets upset, i will say that i posted something similar to this on the VirtualBox forum, but i have not received a response in more than 24 hours - nor am i expecting one.
Edited by: Neal Weissman on Feb 20, 2012 11:41 PM

Answer 1

h3. I FIGURED OUT THE ANSWER!
when i realized what the problem was, i slapped my forehead so hard that my brain felt a sharp pain, my adrenaline spiralled, and i was a hair-breadth away from a homicidal frenzy.
the answer will cause you gurus to laugh (i can just picture you chuckling!), but to a noob, this was a major obstacle and emotional experience: i was depressed for three days because i didn't know whom to ask these most rudimentary of questions.
the answer is this: Oracle's user's manual dictates, authoritatively,
pkgadd -d VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.pkg
being a noob, besotted by definition, i don't question, but rather i do as i'm told, so i entered verbatim pkgadd -d VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.pkg . solaris rejected it and produced an error report. in the next 36 hours, every permutation of every reasonable, possible modification was likewise unceremoniously rejected.
on the third day, the gods took pity on me: They revealed that the name of the extracted file is not VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS.pkg , but rather +it is VirtualBox-4.1.8-SunOS -r75467 .pkg+ -- the "-r75467" was the gremlin!!
it installed.
Edited by: Neal Weissman on Feb 21, 2012 7:11 PM
Edited by: Neal Weissman on Feb 21, 2012 7:15 PM
Edited by: Neal Weissman on Feb 21, 2012 7:17 PM