[Mageia-discuss] VirtualBox releases

Kira elegant.pegasus at gmail.com
Wed Jul 20 15:11:36 CEST 2011


在 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 21:03:41 +0800, TJ <andrewsfarm at gmail.com>寫道:

> New VirtualBox releases are coming thick and fast. On July 15, Oracle  
> released version 4.0.12. Yesterday, four days later, version 4.1.0 was  
> released.
>
> At this rate, it's going to be next to impossible for the repositories  
> to keep up, and to remain viable for all users they may not even want to  
> try.
>
> If a user wants to try it on his own, what would be the best procedure?  
> I had originally thought that for now the Oracle-supplied Mandriva rpms  
> would probably work, but I've read that they won't because they use a  
> version of Python different from that of Mageia.
>
> Would Oracle's generic for-any-Linux version install with little  
> difficulty?
>
> TJ
>
If you use Cauldron, you would find 4.1.0 is already in the repository...

Maybe it's not that hard to keep up?


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