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On Thursday 18 September 2014 08:27 AM, Omar Radwan wrote:
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
Please, when you file a bug report, also include the relevant build
failure. From your bug report, we have zero idea on what the problem
could be.
That said, I am using the same version on the same kernel, on my Debian
box. My guess is that you do not have the relevant linux-headers package
installed.
@VBox Maintainers: I am seeing too many similar bug reports. Perhaps we
should add a Recommends on the kernel headers metapackage. But the catch
is that there is no linux-headers meta package like we have for, say,
linux-tools.
@Debian Kernel Maintainers: What would you recommend we add a Recommends
for ?
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