On 12/15/2014 10:02 PM, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 12/16/14 10:43, Fred Smith wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 10:38:58PM +0000, Paul Smith wrote: >>> Dear All, >>> >>> Does somebody know when will Oracle make VirtualBox available on its >>> repository for Fedora 21? >>> >>> At the moment, no package for F21 is available: >>> >>> http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/ >>> >>> Thanks in advance, >>> >>> Paul >> what do you mean "for" fedora 21? Fedora 21 host, or Fedora 21 guest? >> >> I'm hosting 4.3.20 on Centos-6, and the Fedora-21 guest works just >> fine. I even reinstalled the guest additions just now, using the >> 4.3.20 parts and they installed just fine. what more do you want? >> >> I'm using, BTW, the vbox 4.3.20 downloaded from virtualbox.org, >> not from any repo. >> > He means there is "no repo" dedicated to F21. So, the repo file.... > > [virtualbox] > name=Fedora $releasever - $basearch - VirtualBox > baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/$releasever/$basearch > enabled=1 > gpgcheck=1 > gpgkey=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc > > Doesn't find vbox due to $releasever=21 and that directory doesn't exist. > > Yes, one can simply download and install the most recent rpm which is > VirtualBox-4.3-4.3.20_96996_fedora18-1 > I didn't realize I didn't have it installed... running Fedora21.. ran # yum install VirtualBox Installed: VirtualBox.x86_64 0:4.3.20-1.fc21
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