Package: virtualbox-ext-pack
Version: 7.2.2-1
Severity: important
Dear Maintainer,
Installation fails like this:
$ sudo apt install virtualbox-ext-pack
Installing:
virtualbox-ext-pack
Summary:
Upgrading: 0, Installing: 1, Removing: 0, Not Upgrading: 0
Download size: 0 B / 12.5 kB
Space needed: 174 kB / 20.0 GB available
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 968422 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-ext-pack_7.2.2-1_all.deb ...
User did not accept the license.
dpkg: error processing archive
/var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-ext-pack_7.2.2-1_all.deb (--unpack):
new virtualbox-ext-pack package pre-installation script subprocess returned
error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-ext-pack_7.2.2-1_all.deb
The key sentence is: User did not accept the license.
As a user I had no chance for reading or accepting the license:
the installation process did not display anything and did not prompt for
anything,
the installation just failed with a message which is not very useful (google
did not help to find solutions).
How do I accept the license?
Is there a key "--accept" or something?
Please consider adding such a note to the installation script.
Best regards,
Marius
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-- System Information:
Debian Release: forky/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (500, 'stable'), (50, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.16.3+deb14-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE,
TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages virtualbox-ext-pack depends on:
ii ca-certificates 20250419
ii debconf [debconf-2.0] 1.5.91
ii virtualbox 7.2.2-dfsg-2
ii wget 1.25.0-2
virtualbox-ext-pack recommends no packages.
virtualbox-ext-pack suggests no packages.
