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There is no version dependency on this package on purpose! You could read comments back from 2011 to understand why.

The pinned comment says there is no version dependency, but there is a version dependency. I'm confused. Does there need to be a version dependency? I thought Virtualbox worked fine even if the extension was out of date just that it would eventually need updating?

For those wondering about how to upgrade despite the dependency conflicts between virtualbox and virtualbox-ext-oracle, I think this is the most straightforward solution: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/virtualbox-ext-oracle?O=10#comment-911127

Paraphrase: Force-install virtualbox first, ignoring dependency checks:

pacman -Sd virtualbox

Then, install virtualbox-ext-oracle with your favorite package manager.

Maybe instead of pinning a comment about searching through comments in 2011, we could pin an actual solution that most people will be looking for??? 🤔

Can you please move the dependency on virtualbox=${pkgver} to the package() function? As described here https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/PKGBUILD#depends in the first paragraph, only dependencies that are needed to build and run should be defined globally and dependencies that are only needed to run should be defined in the package() function. This way we can build the package without having to remove the old Virtualbox package.

To workaround the dependency check blocker when updating with a AUR helper, I successfully get this working: before updating, go to the PKGBUILD's dir and update this single package with

makepkg -di

This will first ignore the deps, but then actually install the required virtualbox version together as well. Then, upgrade all packages as usual

paru
# or
sudo pacman -Syu

sudo /sbin/rcvboxdrv setup fixed kernel modules error for Win10 after reinstalling packages

can't install in 7.1?

In addition to the post_install() function, the post_remove() function needs to be updated as well with the new name 'Oracle VirtualBox Extension Pack' instead of 'Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack'.

Thank you!

Hi, thanks for maintaining this. The actual extpack file was renamed, I can see you adjusted the PKGBUILD for that:

-    "$pkgdir/usr/share/virtualbox/extensions/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-${pkgver}.vbox-extpack"
+    "$pkgdir/usr/share/virtualbox/extensions/Oracle_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-${pkgver}.vbox-extpack"

But the post_install() function in the file virtualbox-ext-oracle.install still uses the old name. I think it should be updated there as well.

Thanks!

@fenugrec, I'd try removing both packages. Then, install virtualbox alone. When finished, install virtualbox-ext-oracle. Make sure both are at latest before installing.

I hope it helps!

Hi, usually when I have problems it's usually something I did wrong and can figure out, or something already explained in the comments. This one has me stumped :

(trying to install 7.0.20; virtualbox-bin 7.0.20 already installed)

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(1/1) reinstalling virtualbox-ext-oracle                                [----------------------------------------] 100%
VBoxManage: error: Manifest mismatch: 'linux.amd64/VBoxEhciR0.r0' not found in the 2nd manifest
VBoxManage: error: Details: code NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0x80004005), component ExtPackFileWrap, interface IExtPackFile, callee nsISupports
VBoxManage: error: Context: "Install(fReplace, __null, ptrProgress.asOutParam())" at line 1908 of file VBoxManageMisc.cpp
error: command failed to execute correctly
:: Running post-transaction hooks...