VirtualBox latest

alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3925

Hi Respected Community,
I was wondering if there is a clear and precise manual on how to install the latest version of Vbox(download it from Vbox website).
What are the exact dependencies?
Can emerge detect the dependencies of a given package?
If not is there any utility that does that?
Thanks a lot
Andreas

Jaglover · Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 5:46 pm Post subject:

VirtualBox 6.0.8 is in portage, what do you mean by latest?
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NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sat Jun 01, 2019 5:50 pm Post subject:

alamahant,

ebuilds list both build time and run time depenencies.
If you find a dependency missing, that's a bug.
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alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3925

Jaglover,
Thanks for the reply but I seem to have app-emulation/virtualbox 5.2.26.
It is definitely NOT 6xxx...
I woder why....................

Hu · Administrator Joined: 06 Mar 2007 Posts: 22852

Ask Portage. Post the output of emerge --pretend --verbose '>=app-emulation/virtualbox-6'.

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2019 11:44 pm Post subject:

alamahant,

alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3925

@All
Thanks thanks I got it.
Apparently I needed to use ~amd64 in package.accept_keywords..
Thank you all
Regards
Andreas