* On 2019 03 Aug 02:25 -0500, Sven Hartge wrote: > Nate Bargmann <n0nb@n0nb.us> wrote: > > On 2019 02 Aug 12:11 -0500, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > > >> Given that VBox is no longer in the Buster repositories I tried to > >> install the Stretch .deb package from the VBox web site. dpkg failed > >> because of dependency problems, including libvpx4 that is not in the > >> Buster repositories. > >> > >> Anyone have any thoughts? > > > I grabbed the .debs from the Sid repository and manually installed > > them. I've not gotten around to setting up pinning to track them > > automatically. > > This will work for now, because Buster and Sid are still quite similar > but as soon as Sid diverges farther from Buster, this will fail or > worse, pull many dependencies from Sid into you Buster installation. I understand that. I hope that by that time I'll be so bored with the stability of Buster that it will be time to move up to Bullseye while it is still Testing. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us Projects: https://github.com/N0NB GPG fingerprint: 82D6 4F6B 0E67 CD41 F689 BBA6 FB2C 5130 D55A 8819
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