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Re: Virtual Box



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.

S!

-- 
Sigmentation fault. Core dumped.


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