[ubuntu-uk] First generation iTouch in 9.04?

Rowan Berkeley rowan.berkeley at googlemail.com
Thu Aug 13 11:23:57 BST 2009


On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 at 10:48:03 Neil Greenwood
<neil.greenwood.lug at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sun include a repository for the VirtualBox version that you can get
> from their website. This means that you'll get updates to VirtualBox
> when they're available - better than downloading a version from the
> website and it getting out-of-date, especially for a non-expert user.
> http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
> Halfway down the page it talks about the line to add to
> /etc/apt/sources.list (I actually create a new file in
> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox, but that's personal preference
> really). As it recommends at the bottom of that page, install dkms
> too, otherwise a kernel update will break VB.

But DKMS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support
- ) requires lots of skills to install and use, as I recall from having
considered it to deal with my non-default interface driver problem.




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