Package: virtualbox-dkms Version: 4.3.14-dfsg-1 Severity: grave Tags: upstream Justification: renders package unusable
Dear Maintainer, I recently got Debian installed on my laptop. Everything went smoothly, except getting virtualbox to work was a nightmare. The virtualbox-dkms package on Debian Testing, which at the moment is using linux 3.14, fails to build or install. I realized that the only way to get it working was to download a kernel source from kernel.org, I got the 3.14.15 kernel, compile and install it myself, then boot from it, this was the only way to get virtualbox working on my machine. I don't think that a significant amount Debian users, which aren't very proficient in unix-like systems, would have the expertise to compile their own kernel and install. After I compiled and installed the new kernel. I did "dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms", and it compiled the package and I was able to use virtualbox. PS: I'm using virtualbox 4.3.14 -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 3.14.15 (SMP w/8 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages virtualbox-dkms depends on: ii dkms 2.2.0.3-1.2 ii dpkg 1.17.13 ii virtualbox 4.3.14-dfsg-1 virtualbox-dkms recommends no packages. virtualbox-dkms suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org