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   <H1>[Mageia-discuss] VirtualBox releases</H1>
    <B>Ahmad Samir</B> 
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    <I>Wed Jul 20 15:15:53 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 20 July 2011 15:03, TJ &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">andrewsfarm at gmail.com</A>&gt; wrote:
&gt;<i> New VirtualBox releases are coming thick and fast. On July 15, Oracle
</I>&gt;<i> released version 4.0.12. Yesterday, four days later, version 4.1.0 was
</I>&gt;<i> released.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> At this rate, it's going to be next to impossible for the repositories to
</I>&gt;<i> keep up, and to remain viable for all users they may not even want to try.
</I>&gt;<i>
</I>&gt;<i> If a user wants to try it on his own, what would be the best procedure? I
</I>&gt;<i> had originally thought that for now the Oracle-supplied Mandriva rpms would
</I>&gt;<i> probably work, but I've read that they won't because they use a version of
</I>&gt;<i> Python different from that of Mageia.
</I>&gt;<i>
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[...]

&gt;<i> Would Oracle's generic for-any-Linux version install with little difficulty?
</I>&gt;<i>
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The generic one should work (according to jkerr who's been using the
generic one for a long time, AFAIK).

&gt;<i> TJ
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</I>&gt;<i>
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Ahmad Samir
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