| Git Clone URL: | https://aur.archlinux.org/virtualbox-ext-oracle.git (read-only, click to copy) |
|---|---|
| Package Base: | virtualbox-ext-oracle |
| Description: | Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack |
| Upstream URL: | https://www.virtualbox.org/ |
| Keywords: | virtualbox |
| Licenses: | custom:PUEL |
| Submitter: | seblu |
| Maintainer: | seblu (eworm) |
| Last Packager: | eworm |
| Votes: | 1361 |
| Popularity: | 1.44 |
| First Submitted: | 2010-12-24 16:48 (UTC) |
| Last Updated: | 2024-04-17 07:39 (UTC) |
your change
- depends = virtualbox
- depends = virtualbox=7.0.4
break update of my system.
installing virtualbox (7.0.6-1) breaks the 'virtualbox=7.0.4' dependency required by the virtualbox-ext-oracle package.
are you sure? I really don't want to uninstall and new install virtualbox-ext-oracle after every update of virtualbox :/ (i use pikaur for update) Thanks!
@semeion
sudo vboxmanage extpack install ./Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.0.2.vbox-extpack
...
Do you agree to these license terms and conditions (y/n)? y
License accepted. For batch installation add
--accept-license=33d7284dc4a0ece381196fda3cfe2ed0e1e8e7ed7f27b9a9ebc4ee22e24bd23c
to the VBoxManage command line.
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
Successfully installed "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack".
Hi! Version of virtualbox-ext-oracle is 7.0.2
Version of virtualbox6-ext-oracle is 6.1.40-2
Version of Virtualbox from Arch Linux is 6.1.38.
I fixed the problem installing the Extension Pack from https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.38/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.38.vbox-extpack
They're ignoring it all because versioned deps don't work well in the AUR, as anyone who has tried it already knows.
Here's an idea, pay attention to what's on your system and take some responsibility for it instead of blinding trusting some helper that's not helping you at all.
As for the idea of the PKGBUILD detecting what's on your system and downloading sources based on that, that's not what a PKGBUILD is.
Rhinoceros commented on 2022-10-21 17:45 (CST) I agree that there should be a version dependency, but I'm not sure if the maintainer is ignoring these numerous comments because of their pinned comment. However, this is not exactly clear, and there are eight pages of comments from 2011, so it would be perhaps more polite to address our concerns in a new pinned comment.
They are ignoring others. They have an email connected to this site (an arch email, which I didn't know existed) and I privately emailed, offering to help out with this and improve the PKGBUILD file. Personally I think the Oracle has the packages up stream we should have one AUR and it detect your version of virtualbox and then download and build the version based on that. The builds and checksums are all in easy to find places on their server... There's no reason this AUR couldn't be built to handle that I think, unless the AUR philosophy is to not allow for that sort of thing? Anyway the official virtualbox has updated so now we can use this version of the extension pack again, hooray?
After upgrading to virtualbox 7.0.2-1, don't forget to reload the vboxdrv module (sudo modprobe -r vboxdrv), otherwise you'll get an error when starting an OS in VirtualBox.
I agree that there should be a version dependency, but I'm not sure if the maintainer is ignoring these numerous comments because of their pinned comment. However, this is not exactly clear, and there are eight pages of comments from 2011, so it would be perhaps more polite to address our concerns in a new pinned comment.
The VirtualBox Extension Pack major version must match with the major version of VirtualBox installed. At this time, the [community] repo still only has 6.1, while the version of virtualbox-ext-oracle here is 7.0. Two options available are either to upgrade to virtualbox 7.0 in [community-testing], or build and install the previous 6.1.40 release of virtualbox-ext-oracle and wait for virtualbox 7.0 to exit testing.
@SR-G, I am getting same errors here, do you know how to solve this issue?
loading packages...
resolving dependencies...
looking for conflicting packages...
Packages (1) virtualbox-ext-oracle-7.0.2-1
Total Installed Size: 2,45 MiB
Net Upgrade Size: 0,00 MiB
:: Proceed with installation? [Y/n]
(1/1) checking keys in keyring [###################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking package integrity [###################################################] 100%
(1/1) loading package files [###################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking for file conflicts [###################################################] 100%
(1/1) checking available disk space [###################################################] 100%
:: Processing package changes...
0%...10%...20%...30%...40%...50%...60%...70%...80%...90%...100%
(1/1) upgrading virtualbox-ext-oracle [###################################################] 100%
0%...
Progress state: NS_ERROR_FAILURE
VBoxManage: error: Failed to install "/usr/share/virtualbox/extensions/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.0.2.vbox-extpack"
VBoxManage: error: Failed to load the main module ('/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/linux.amd64/VBoxPuelMain.so'): VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND - /usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack/linux.amd64/VBoxPuelMain.so: undefined symbol: RTUtf16NCmp
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ExtPackManagerWrap, interface IExtPackManager
VBoxManage: error: Context: "RTEXITCODE handleExtPack(HandlerArg*)" at line 1424 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
error: command failed to execute correctly
:: Running post-transaction hooks...
(1/1) Arming ConditionNeedsUpdate...
==> Cleaning up...
Pinned Comments
seblu commented on 2019-04-25 17:41 (UTC)
There is no version dependency on this package on purpose! You could read comments back from 2011 to understand why.