On 20/07/11 14:15, Ahmad Samir wrote:
On 20 July 2011 15:03, TJ<[email protected]> wrote:
New VirtualBox releases are coming thick and fast. On July 15, Oracle
released version 4.0.12. Yesterday, four days later, version 4.1.0 was
released.
At this rate, it's going to be next to impossible for the repositories to
keep up, and to remain viable for all users they may not even want to try.
If a user wants to try it on his own, what would be the best procedure? I
had originally thought that for now the Oracle-supplied Mandriva rpms would
probably work, but I've read that they won't because they use a version of
Python different from that of Mageia.
[...]
Would Oracle's generic for-any-Linux version install with little difficulty?
The generic one should work (according to jkerr who's been using the
generic one for a long time, AFAIK).
That's right - I've been using it for at least a couple of years (on
Mandriva, Fedora and now on Mageia) and, have never had a problem with
it. You do need to make sure that the devel kernel, dkms, gcc etc. are
installed first.
Jim
