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and subject line Re: Bug#509872: virtualbox-ose: installing requires to install
a new kernel if no debian kernel is found
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regarding virtualbox-ose: installing requires to install a new kernel if no
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--- Begin Message ---
Package: virtualbox-ose
Version: 1.6.6-dfsg-3
Severity: normal
I am using a kernel from sidux, when i tried to install virtualbox-ose it
wanted to install the latest
debian kernel with virtualbox modules for it. The expected behaviour would be
to install the source
and then ask me to use m-a to compile the module.
Anyway installing the source and creating the module before trying to install
the package makes
the debian kernel dep disappear.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (101,
'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.27-6.slh.5-sidux-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=it_IT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=it_IT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages virtualbox-ose depends on:
ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.24 Debian configuration management sy
ii libc6 2.7-16 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii libgcc1 1:4.3.2-1 GCC support library
ii libgl1-mesa-glx [libgl1] 7.0.3-7 A free implementation of the OpenG
ii libglib2.0-0 2.16.6-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libidl0 0.8.11-0.1 library for parsing CORBA IDL file
ii libqt3-mt 3:3.3.8b-5 Qt GUI Library (Threaded runtime v
ii libsdl1.2debian 1.2.13-4 Simple DirectMedia Layer
ii libstdc++6 4.3.2-1 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
hi libx11-6 2:1.1.5-2 X11 client-side library
ii libxcursor1 1:1.1.9-1 X cursor management library
ii libxml2 2.6.32.dfsg-5 GNOME XML library
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.24-2 XSLT processing library - runtime
ii libxt6 1:1.0.5-3 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
Versions of packages virtualbox-ose recommends:
ii virtualbox-ose-mo 1.6.6-dfsg-3+2.6.27-30 VirtualBox modules for Linux (kern
Versions of packages virtualbox-ose suggests:
pn bridge-utils <none> (no description available)
ii virtualbox-ose-source 1.6.6-dfsg-3 x86 virtualization solution - kern
-- debconf information:
* virtualbox-ose/upstream_version_change: true
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--- Begin Message ---
Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> I am using a kernel from sidux, when i tried to install virtualbox-ose it
> wanted to install the latest
> debian kernel with virtualbox modules for it.
virtualbox-ose recommends virtualbox-ose-modules, which is a virtual
package provided by prebuild virtualbox binary modules from
linux-modules-extra-2.6.
if you distribution does not contain matching linux-modules-extra-2.6,
that's their fault and not a bug in debian. you should report that in
the bug tracker of the distribution you are using.
as a workaround, you also could disable automatic installation of
recommended packages, see man 5 apt.conf, or as you stated yourself,
make the recommends fulfiled by building and installing matching modules
with m-a before installing virtualbox-ose.
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