On 31/03/2020 00:13, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > 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?
Good question! Whilst it *is* in the repositories I must have installed it from Oracle during the Buster hiatus. "virtualbox: Installed: (none) Candidate: (none) Version table: " Regards. Peter HB