Hi Gianfranco,
thanks for your tips.
The problem with HAL (and with most of the packages I listed) is that it
is not recognized by the 'configure' script.
So, without installing it (or changing the script), the process will stop.
I guess the script should be updated as well.
Regards,
Federico
On 02/20/2017 05:25 PM, Gianfranco Costamagna wrote:
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.
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