Upgrade Virtualbox 3.0.6 to 3.0.8 on Fedora 11

Since I've been running Fedora 11 exclusively on my primary laptop since everything I need to work works perfectly in this environment I have ditched VMWare Workstation and have taken Sun's Virtualbox which by the way works quite smoothly if you ask me.  Installation was quite easy, but sometimes people get thrown off base when you have to upgrade software in the Linux environment.  So here's the quick walkthrough of upgrading your Virtualbox installation

Open a terminal window and run the following commands:

(32bit OS install)

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.8/VirtualBox-3.0.8_53138_f...

64bit OS Install

wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/3.0.8/VirtualBox-3.0.8_53138_f...

Once you have the rpm downloaded run the following command

rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-3.0.8_53138_fedora12-1.i686.rpm

and you'll see a similar output in your terminal once completed

[root@localhost Download]# rpm -Uvh VirtualBox-3.0.8_53138_fedora11-1.i586.rpm
warning: VirtualBox-3.0.8_53138_fedora11-1.i586.rpm: Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 6dfbcbae
Preparing... ########################################### [100%]
1:VirtualBox ########################################### [100%]

Creating group 'vboxusers'. VM users must be member of that group!

No precompiled module for this kernel found -- trying to build one. Messages
emitted during module compilation will be logged to /var/log/vbox-install.log.

Success!

Stopping VirtualBox kernel module [ OK ]

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