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Il Lunedì 20 Febbraio 2017 17:25, Gianfranco Costamagna <[email protected]> ha scritto: Hello, >- libhal-dev: this package is no longer available in the Ubuntu repositories. >It used to be replaced by some other package, but this is not the case anymore. > The only viable solution (to the best of my knowledge) is to > add a private repository, named > mjblenner/ppa-hal(https://launchpad.net/~mjblenner/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-hal), >which cointains the last HAL packages. HAL is inside systemd (or has been replaced), so please don't use it >- linux-kernel-headers -> replaced (automatically) by linux-libc-dev > >- python-central -> a part from being unavailable, it seems it is simply not >needed anymore (since python is pre-installed). >- (64-bit systems) ia32-libs -> replaced by lib32ncurses5 >- mkisofs -> replaced by genisoimage >- SSL: libcurl4-openssl-dev is not sufficient, since it does not install the >headers. These are installed by libssl-dev >- VPX: this is not even included in the list, but it is necessary to install >the libvpx-dev package >- Qt4: Starting from VBox 5, the correct version is Qt5, and it can be >installed through the qt5-default package > >Another good thing to add would be to add instructions for the watcom package, >which has to be installed manually. >Currently, the only version I managed to make visible to vbox is > the one from openwatcom.org (http://www.openwatcom.org/download.php). >After installing the package (download the linux binary, make it > executable (chmod +x), run the installation choosing the > destination folder), >it is necessary to export the WATCOM variable in order to have it > correctly seen by vbox: ' export WATCOM=watcom-full-path'. > >In my case, these step were enough, but it may vary from system to system. >I hope this will help people trying to build vbox for the first > time, >and incentivize the administrators to update the online > instructions. apt-get source virtualbox might help, also I maintain in my ppa the latest version https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/virtualbox-ppa G. _______________________________________________ vbox-dev mailing list [email protected] https://www.virtualbox.org/mailman/listinfo/vbox-dev
