Virtualbox after 10.04 upgrade
Reinhold Rumberger
rrumberger at web.de
Thu Jun 3 15:22:35 UTC 2010
On Thursday 03 June 2010, D. R. Evans wrote:
> Clay Weber said the following at 05/22/2010 06:29 PM :
> > Agreed, especially as the 3.2 available from VB themselves
> > seems to be bit better stability-wise (for me at least). Also
> > note that
>
> Where does one find an installable package for virtualbox-ose that
> can replace the official lucid package(s)?
>
> I went to the download section of virtualbox.org, and all I could
> see are a list of sources (the binaries are all for non-OSE
> versions). I don't mind experimenting with a non-Canonical
> package if it might result in a working virtualbox under lucid,
> but many years' experience tells me that building from sources is
> almost certainly going to be a recipe for wasting a lot of time
> fighting dependency problems with the tools.
Do you have any particular problems with the non-OSE version? I, for
one, need USB to work, so OSE isn't really an alternative...
Perhaps there is a ppa with up-to-date OSE packages...?
--Reinhold
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