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List:       vbox-dev
Subject:    [vbox-dev] I: Updating packages for Linux build instructions (Ubuntu	16.04)
From:       Gianfranco Costamagna <costamagnagianfranco () yahoo ! it>
Date:       2017-02-20 16:32:46
Message-ID: 288185188.2238275.1487608366440 () mail ! yahoo ! com
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Il Lunedì 20 Febbraio 2017 17:25, Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org> \
ha scritto: Hello,

> - libhal-dev: this package is no longer available in the Ubuntu repositories. It \
> used to be replaced by some other package, but this is not the case anymore. The \
> only viable solution (to the best of my knowledge) is to add a private repository, \
> named mjblenner/ppa-hal(https://launchpad.net/~mjblenner/+archive/ubuntu/ppa-hal), \
> which cointains the last HAL packages. 


HAL is inside systemd (or has been replaced), so please don't use it

> - linux-kernel-headers -> replaced (automatically) by linux-libc-dev
> 
> - python-central -> a part from being unavailable, it seems it is simply not needed \
>                 anymore (since python is pre-installed).
> - (64-bit systems) ia32-libs -> replaced by lib32ncurses5
> - mkisofs -> replaced by genisoimage
> - SSL: libcurl4-openssl-dev is not sufficient, since it does not install the \
>                 headers. These are installed by libssl-dev
> - VPX: this is not even included in the list, but it is necessary to install the \
>                 libvpx-dev package
> - Qt4: Starting from VBox 5, the correct version is Qt5, and it can be installed \
> through the qt5-default package 
> Another good thing to add would be to add instructions for the watcom package, \
> which has to be installed manually. Currently, the only version I managed to make \
> visible to vbox is the one from openwatcom.org \
> (http://www.openwatcom.org/download.php). After installing the package (download \
> the linux binary, make it executable (chmod +x), run the installation choosing the
> destination folder),
> it is necessary to export the WATCOM variable in order to have it
> correctly seen by vbox: ' export WATCOM=watcom-full-path'.
> 
> In my case, these step were enough, but it may vary from system to system.
> I hope this will help people trying to build vbox for the first
> time,
> and incentivize the administrators to update the online
> instructions.


apt-get source virtualbox might help, also I maintain in my ppa the latest version
https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/virtualbox-ppa

G.
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