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

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