On 30/03/2020 19:59, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 08:38:29PM +0200, Michael wrote: >> On Monday, March 30, 2020 8:19:31 PM CEST, kaye n wrote: >> >>> But what if I want to get the latest version of virtualbox which is 6.1.4 ? >> >> you can get a list of all available versions with >> apt list 'virtualbox-?\.?' >> >> and then just do: >> apt-get install virtualbox-6.1 >> >>> Thank you! >> >> urw >> >> in the future: don't just copy and paste anything you find on the web. try >> to understand what's the idea and then you can adapt it to your needs. >> >> but who am i to tell you what to do... >> >> greetings... >> > > In the future: you might consider reading the entirety of the original > post. > > Kaye is running Debian Buster and virtualbox is not available in Buster. > Hence the need to obtain it from a 3rd party repository (one provided by > Oracle/VirtualBox in this case). Your suggestion, which would work for > someone running Debian Sid, will not work in this case.
Virtualbox 6.1.4 *is* in the Buster repositories - I'm using it. Peter HB