oh Debian, how I dislike you
Ok, I will admit it, Im a Redhat guy – I understand it, it makes sense to me. However Id like to think I know my way around a Debian based system, but it seems I dont More here
Here is the scenario – I have a Debian box running on an Intel Xeon 64bit server (with VT support). I decide Id like to see how VirtualBox runs on there. So I go over to the VirtualBox site and find that there are debs for Debian. Great! Ok, I have two choices – i386 deb or AMD64 deb. So I think, well my processor is not AMD, I shall get the i386 deb
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Perhaps that’s the reason SUN did some xtra work for you:
* put VirtualBox in its own repository,
* instructed how to add this repo to the system
* how to import repo key
* stated the exact set of commands to issue to install VBox automatically pulling all dependencies.
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arcitecture is still called amd64 even in fedora. This has really Nothing to do with Debian
arcitecture is still called amd64 even in fedora/redhat. This has really Nothing to do with Debian
It’s exactly like Pyth0n said. I have never had any problems using sun’s virtualbox on Debian. Edit your sources.list, import the key, apt-get update and finally install it, that’s it.