On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:25:58PM -0800, NoOp wrote: > On 02/05/2009 04:36 AM, Frank Mehnert wrote: > > On Thursday 05 February 2009, Amit k. Saha wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Chris G <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > I have been running VirtualBox 2.0.6 on my Ubuntu 8.10 system for a > >> > while now but feel that I maybe should move to the 2.1 series. > >> > > >> > Both virtualbox-2.0 and virtualbox-2.1 are in the Ubuntu 8.10 > >> > repositories, can I install 2.1.2 before removing 2.0.6 or should I > >> > remove 2.0.6 first? Are there any other issues? > >> > >> IIRC, if you do a 'sudo apt-get install virtualbox-2.1' it will > >> upgrade your existing VBox installation.. I forgot what I did :-) > > > > If you select the virtualbox-2.1 package, the virtualbox-2.0 package > > should be unselected automatically. > > > > Kind regards, > > > > Frank > > Careful... the Ubuntu repository version is the OSE: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/intrepid/misc/virtualbox-ose > <http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?suite=intrepid&searchon=names&keywords=virtualbox> > > So if he has actually been running the PEUL version, and hasn't added > the _virtualbox_ repository: > http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads > deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free > and key, it won't work. He will get: E: couldn't find package > virtualbox-2.1. > > It appears that he does have the _virtualbox_ repository in his > /etc/apps/sources.list as he indicated that it worked for him, but (IMO) > it's always best to distinguish between the two. > Yes, sorry folks, I should have made it clear I was using the non-OSE version and that I have the additional virtualbox repositories added.
I can confirm that the upgrade went flawlessly by the way. :-) -- Chris Green _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
