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virtualbox-ose 4.0 needs packaging

Asked by Dommo

Oracle has released virtualbox under GPLv2 and has removed proprietary/binary blobs and has released those as a plug-in. can you please package and distribute the new virtualbox in the normal distro?

here's the link to the GPL v2 Source code http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.0.0/VirtualBox-4.0.0.tar.bz2

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/12/install-virtualbox-40-stable-in-ubuntu.html

Use the virtualbox repository.

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) said : 		#2

1. There are no Natty packages there
2. The virtualbox package is in contrib section, so it's not 100% open-source

I hope it'll be added to ppa:debfx/virtualbox.
You can contact Felix Geyer (https://launchpad.net/~debfx), who can upload it there.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/how-to-easily-install-virtualbox-4-0-in-ubuntu/

better?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#4

http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/01/how-to-easily-install-virtualbox-4-0-in-ubuntu/

better?

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) said : 		#5

This script adds the same Oracle's repository :)

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) said : 		#6

Fixed (LP: #709027)

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