Chris Green wrote on 03/20/2012 04:33 PM: > Yes, true enough, but doing that a lot ends you up in "dependency > hell". > > I do have a few bits and pieces I install 'outside' of using the > repositories but it's something that it's a good idea to avoid as far as > possible.
Chris, Having done plenty of hard time in dependency hell, I can assure you that the VirtualBox extension pack is not in that category. It works only with VirtualBox, neither has nor needs any other dependencies, and will not cause problems with any other package. As far as I know it is not carried in any repository (certainly not in the CentOS/SL/RHEL yum repos I use), and if it is, then it should be up to the distro/repo that includes it to keep up with updates. The "proper" way to handle it is to download the latest version from the site and install it. There are multiple ways of accomplishing this but I usually do it from Preferences. Phil ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
