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Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos

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On 08/15/2017 12:37 AM, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 01:18:22PM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote:
>> Robert Menes <viewtiful.icchan@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Is there a reason why virtualbox hasn't migrated into stretch or
>>> buster yet?
>>
>> Short Answer: Because of Oracle.
>>
>> Longer Answer: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=794466
>>
>> Summary: Virtualbox will at the current state of affairs never be in
>> Testing or any stable release or stable-backports ever again.
>>
> 
> I feel this answer is slightly disingenuous.
> 
> Yes it is true the official Debian repo won't contain Virtualbox again
> until Oracle make changes they will most likely never make.
> 
> But, you can get VirtualBox to work just fine on post-Jessie Debian by
> adding the following to your sources.list or sources.list.d:
> 
> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib
> 
> (Obviously you wouldn't use stretch, I am on stretch so that is what I
> use)
> 
> then apt update and bob will be your uncle, and fanny will be your aunt.
> 
> Mark

I'm using the exact line you quoted (using 'stretch' in the virtualbox 
line) and it's not complaining at all. Works fine on this end. Also, I 
put it in a separate file in the sources.list.d but I don't know if that 
matters?

I use virtualbox for development and testing, so for me it's a 
must-have. A friend of mine recently moved from hardware servers to 
Debian Stretch + VirtualBox (I told him how to use the virtualbox.org 
repo as I too discovered it wasn't in the Debian repo).

I always used the Oracle repo anyway because it was updated more 
frequently. But I do wish that something could be worked out so that it 
would be back in Debian.

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Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Robert Menes <viewtiful.icchan@gmail.com> - 2017-08-11 13:10 +0200
  Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-08-11 13:20 +0200
    Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-08-11 13:40 +0200
    Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mark Fletcher <mark27q1@gmail.com> - 2017-08-15 06:40 +0200
      Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-18 14:50 +0200
        Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-08-18 15:20 +0200
          Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-18 16:10 +0200
            Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-08-18 16:30 +0200
              Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-18 16:40 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-18 17:10 +0200
              Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-22 15:00 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Dejan Jocic <jodejka@gmail.com> - 2017-08-22 20:40 +0200
            Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-08-18 16:50 +0200
              Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-19 00:30 +0200
              Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos RavenLX <ravenlx@sitesplace.net> - 2017-08-19 00:30 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-08-19 03:00 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-19 03:30 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Patrick Bartek <nemommxiv@gmail.com> - 2017-08-19 06:30 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-08-19 09:10 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-19 18:10 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Zenaan Harkness <zenaan@freedbms.net> - 2017-08-19 23:50 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Gilles Mocellin <gilles.mocellin@nuagelibre.org> - 2017-08-19 21:00 +0200
                Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Mario Castelán Castro <marioxcc.MT@yandex.com> - 2017-08-19 21:50 +0200
    Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> - 2017-08-31 16:10 +0200
      Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Sven Hartge <sven@svenhartge.de> - 2017-08-31 16:30 +0200
        Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org> - 2017-08-31 16:40 +0200
  Re: Virtualbox for stretch and buster not in repos Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2017-08-11 13:20 +0200

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