Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos
On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 01:18:22PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
> Robert Menes <viewtiful.icchan@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Is there a reason why virtualbox hasn't migrated into stretch or
> > buster yet?
>
> Short Answer: Because of Oracle.
>
> Longer Answer: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466
>
> Summary: Virtualbox will at the current state of affairs never be in
> Testing or any stable release or stable-backports ever again.
>
I feel this answer is slightly disingenuous.
Yes it is true the official Debian repo won't contain Virtualbox again
until Oracle make changes they will most likely never make.
But, you can get VirtualBox to work just fine on post-Jessie Debian by
adding the following to your sources.list or sources.list.d:
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib
(Obviously you wouldn't use stretch, I am on stretch so that is what I
use)
then apt update and bob will be your uncle, and fanny will be your aunt.
Mark
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