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virtualbox package

The package virtualbox needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

Bug #150406 reported by vito on 2007-10-08

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	virtualbox (Ubuntu)	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: firefox

he package virtualbox needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find an archive for it.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Sun Oct 7 21:22:17 2007
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 7.04
Package: firefox 2.0.0.6+1-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: i386
SourcePackage: firefox
Uname: Linux vito-desktop 2.6.20-16-generic #2 SMP Sun Sep 23 19:50:39 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux

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vito (vtsan2) wrote on 2007-10-08:

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Daniel Hahler (blueyed) wrote on 2007-10-13:

Why does it need to be reinstalled?

There's no Ubuntu repository for "virtualbox", just the official one, but unsupported by Ubuntu: see http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads (where you can find .debs and the instructions to add the virtualbox.org archive to your APT sources).

You may want to try the package virtualbox-ose instead, which is supported by Ubuntu. Please note, that you would also have to install virtualbox-ose-modules (currently provided by the package virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.22-14-generic).

I'm closing this bug as "Invalid", because the package "virtualbox" (without "-ose") is not supported by Ubuntu.

Please feel free to report any other bugs you may see.