Re: Virtual Box

[Rick Thomas <rbthomas@pobox.com>]

> On Aug 2, 2019, at 10:03 AM, Peter Hillier-Brook <phb@hbsys.plus.com> 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?
> 
> Peter HB

A little googling found this website
    https://tecadmin.net/install-virtualbox-on-debian-10-buster/
which tells how to install the Oracle 6.0 VirtualBox using the usual “apt” tools.

It talks about using the “add-apt-repository” command, which is not usually installed as part of Buster.  I worked around that by simply editing the /etc/apt/sources.list file manually.

I’m using virtualbox as described in that webpage as I type.  Works great!

Hope that helps!
Rick