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<H1>[Mageia-discuss] VirtualBox releases</H1>
<B>James Kerr</B>
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<I>Wed Jul 20 15:51:14 CEST 2011</I>
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<PRE>On 20/07/11 14:15, Ahmad Samir wrote:
><i> On 20 July 2011 15:03, TJ<<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">andrewsfarm at gmail.com</A>> wrote:
</I>>><i> New VirtualBox releases are coming thick and fast. On July 15, Oracle
</I>>><i> released version 4.0.12. Yesterday, four days later, version 4.1.0 was
</I>>><i> released.
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</I>>><i> At this rate, it's going to be next to impossible for the repositories to
</I>>><i> keep up, and to remain viable for all users they may not even want to try.
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</I>>><i> If a user wants to try it on his own, what would be the best procedure? I
</I>>><i> had originally thought that for now the Oracle-supplied Mandriva rpms would
</I>>><i> probably work, but I've read that they won't because they use a version of
</I>>><i> Python different from that of Mageia.
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</I>><i> [...]
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</I>>><i> Would Oracle's generic for-any-Linux version install with little difficulty?
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</I>><i> The generic one should work (according to jkerr who's been using the
</I>><i> generic one for a long time, AFAIK).
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That's right - I've been using it for at least a couple of years (on
Mandriva, Fedora and now on Mageia) and, have never had a problem with
it. You do need to make sure that the devel kernel, dkms, gcc etc. are
installed first.
Jim
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