Re: VirtualBox on lenny
On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:24:46 -0800
Raquel <raquel@thericehouse.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:12:42 +0000
> Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:40:52AM -0800, Raquel wrote:
> > >
> > > I don't think that Umarzuki was saying to "circumvent the apt
> > > tools". If you go to the site he indicated, you'll see that the
> > > downloads are ".deb" files, so aptitude/apt would be used to
> > > install VirtualBox from virtualbox.org.
> >
> > What happens on 'apt-get dist-upgrade' #?
> >
> > What should happen?
> >
>
> You have downloaded to your machine and pointed to the appropriate
> location in sources.list. It is up to you to make sure you have the
> most current version available and saved to the same place
> everytime. Then "dist-upgrade" works just the same as when pointing
> to a Debian distro mirror.
>
Okay, I have to take that back. According to the instructions on the
web site, in your sources.list, you point to their repository. That
way when they upgrade their package it's available to you when you do
the update/upgrade.
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Raquel
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