On Tue, Mar 31, 2020 at 12:02:05AM +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: > 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. > What is the output of 'apt-cache policy virtualbox' on your system?
Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez