virtualbox: are there two versions?

[Sarunas Burdulis]

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On 10/25/2010 12:03 PM, Arnaud G wrote:
> you can dowload it from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
> 
> to install :
> dpkg -i the.deb
> 
> et voilà
> 
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> *From:* Leander Jedamus <ljedamus at googlemail.com>
> *To:* "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> *Sent:* Mon, October 25, 2010 12:27:30 PM
> *Subject:* virtualbox: are there two versions?
> 
> Hi!
> 
> I recently read in a magazine that virtualbox from oracle comes in two
> different flaviours: an open source edition (which is in the
> repositories) and a proprietary one, which has usb-support, what I need.
> Do I have to install that package without apt-get? I like that
> update-thing from ubuntu, but did not find the proprietary package in
> the repositories.
> 
> Thanks in advance
> Leander Jedamus

The wiki page above also tells how can one add a repository for
Debian-based Linux, so that your "update-thing" will still work for the
proprietary version of Virtualbox...

Šarūnas
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