Please keep the discussion on the list. On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 03:07:52PM -0700, Frank J Niertit wrote: > Hi all > > You are right I am not subscribed. Been busy. I originally loaded
You need to state you are not subscribed and ask to be CC'd, or better yet subscribe. > virtualbox-3.1 version 3.1.4-57640 from the following line in my > sources.list > > deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lenny non-free > > It still appears there when I check dselect. If however I now try to dselect??? hmmm, been awhile since I had to fight with that. > download it with a new installation dselect selects it and starts > the install routine just to stop and tell me that something went > wrong during installation and I should go and fix it. If I look at > the offending package line it reads error "304 moved temporarily". looks like a problem at virtualbox.org. > I then went to the site and downloaded both the deb and Packages.gz file. > > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/pool/non-free/v/virtualbox-3.1/virtualbox-3.1_3.1.4-57640_Debian_lenny_amd64.deb > > http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/dists/lenny/non-free/binary-amd64/Packages.gz > > I then recreated the exact same trees on my system and substituted > the following line in my sources.list: > > deb file:/opt/debian lenny non-free Ummm, why not just dpkg -i /path/to/virtualbox-3.1_3.1.4-57640_Debian_lenny_amd64 > I checked the packages file and it does point to the right place. Is > the error intentional or did someone mess up. I do not think this is > Suns site. Since I can go to Suns site and it is a different URL. Maybe "Since I can go to Suns site and it is a different URL" and "304 moved temporarily" expalin it? > Thanks guys for your response. I am an associate member of GNU and > EFF. I would appreciated it if you would tell me how to also be > associated with Debian but so for all I have done is to make > contributions whenever I bought something from a site that allowed http://www.debian.org/donations > me to. What mailing list do I subscribe to. I think others maybe The current list of available mailing lists is at http://lists.debian.org/, presented sorted by topic and unsorted. > experiencing this problem especially newbies and they would have no > idea how to work around it. My solution is a hack, as are all > actions taken when you have no time for a more elegant solution, but > it would get them up and running. Why not virtualbox 3.1.4-dfsg-1~bpo50+1 from www.backports.org? [snip] -- Chris. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315111638.ga18...@fischer
