Re: Virtualbox broken dependencies.

[Anthony Nordquist <salinelinux@gmail.com>]

On 06/22/2011 08:40 AM, Cyril Brulebois wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Anthony Nordquist<salinelinux@gmail.com>  (22/06/2011):
> >       Remove the following packages:
> > 1)     virtualbox-ose
> > 2)     virtualbox-ose-dkms
> > 3)     virtualbox-ose-qt
> that probably explains:
> $ for i in virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-dkms virtualbox-ose-qt; do dpkg --info ${i}_*.deb|sed -n '/Description:/,$ p'; done
>   Description: transitional package for virtualbox
>    This is a dummy transitional package for virtualbox and can be
>    safely removed after the installation is complete.
>   Description: transitional package for virtualbox-dkms
>    This is a dummy transitional package for virtualbox-dkms and can be
>    safely removed after the installation is complete.
>   Description: transitional package for virtualbox-qt
>    This is a dummy transitional package for virtualbox-qt and can be
>    safely removed after the installation is complete.
>
> >       Keep the following packages at their current version:
> > 4)     virtualbox-dkms [Not Installed]
> Try telling your package manager to pull virtualbox from
> squeeze-backports, that should do the trick.
>
> Mraw,
> KiBi.

I should have mentioned that I tried that, the package isn't in 
squeeze-backports or Squeeze.  See:

aptitude install -t squeeze-backports virtualbox
No candidate version found for virtualbox