openSUSE v12.3
I have been using VirtualBox from the VirtualBox site for years, currently v4.2.8. Recently I noticed that there is a virtualbox (note the differing capitalization) in the repository, v4.26.
How is the repo version different from the downloaded version?
When you find virrtualbox in the OSS repo, that is the name of a package. The description going with it is:
virtualbox - VirtualBox is an Emulator
VirtualBox is an extremely feature rich, high performance product for enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU Public License (GPL).
Thus virtualbox is the package to install to get VirtualBox. This is a rather normal behaviour: Unix/Linux people hate the Shift key key while typing commands.
I guess that the difference between the one in the repo and the one web-sit is just the version and maybe some minor adaptions to openSUSE
And of course, for most people it is much easier in general to install from the OSS repo because of things like:
. It is already in RPM format (I do not know in this case if the web-site offes an RPM, or a tarball, or whatever);
. The package is tested together with that particular openSUSE version;
. Dependant packages will be installed automatic.
On 3/27/2013 4:36 AM, hcvv wrote:
>
> When you find virrtualbox in the OSS repo, that is the name of a
> package. The description going with it is:
>>
>>
>> virtualbox - VirtualBox is an Emulator
>>
>>
>> VirtualBox is an extremely feature rich, high performance product for
>> enterprise customers, it is also the only professional solution that is
>> freely available as Open Source Software under the terms of the GNU
>> Public License (GPL).
>>
>>
> Thus virtualbox is the package to install to get VirtualBox. This is a
> rather normal behaviour: Unix/Linux people hate the Shift key key while
> typing commands.
>
> I guess that the difference between the one in the repo and the one
> web-sit is just the version and maybe some minor adaptions to openSUSE
>
> And of course, for most people it is much easier in general to install
> from the OSS repo because of things like:
> . It is already in RPM format (I do not know in this case if the
> web-site offes an RPM, or a tarball, or whatever);
> . The package is tested together with that particular openSUSE version;
> . Dependant packages will be installed automatic.
>
>
Just a point of clarification. Oracle does provide VirtualBox rpms for both i386 and AMD64. The current version is
4.2.10 and is available through here: https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads This rpm is for openSUSE versions
11.4 through 12.2. On the virtualbox site you can find rpms for versions of openSUSE back to 10.3. For the older
versions of openSUSE, there may be only older verions of VirtualBox which are offered.
–
P.V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you” Red Green
Yes. I currently get the package from the Vbox site. I was curious if the repo version was the same and stays current with the VirtualBox site. It would trim some manual steps from an update installation (download, install, rebuild driver, update extensions).