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

there may not be any cversion checking but that may be the cause of the wrong checksum. this package fails the checksum and will not install

the version i dont even see on their website and the checksum doesn't match current version

BTW, did anybody notice that there is a newer version 7.0.6a (20.1.2023) that the website links to now? At https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.6 both 7.0.6 and 7.0.6a can be downloaded. Does anybody know the difference?

@erholst This seems unnecessary, just use updpkgsums if you need new checksums or use the official values from https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.6/SHA256SUMS

I made a bash function to install it:

set_new_sha256_and_install_virtualbox_ext_oracle(){
cd /tmp; wget https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/snapshot/virtualbox-ext-oracle.tar.gz
tar xvf virtualbox-ext-oracle.tar.gz
cd virtualbox-ext-oracle/
source PKGBUILD
wget $source
NEWSHA256=$(sha256sum *vbox-extpack|awk {'print $1'})
Line=$(printf "sha256sums=('"$NEWSHA256"')")
sed -i "s/sha256sums.*/$Line/g" PKGBUILD
makepkg -sc
sudo pacman -U *.pkg.tar.zst
}
set_new_sha256_and_install_virtualbox_ext_oracle;

@eworm, is it possible to update both the invalid checksum issue and also remove the force dependency version check that breaks updates on many systems?

Until the maintainer updates the checksum in the PKGBUILD...

Download the vbox ExtPack from Oracle and check the sha256sum: https://www.oracle.com/virtualization/technologies/vm/downloads/virtualbox-downloads.html
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.6/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.0.6.vbox-extpack
Now check the same file/version in the virtualbox-ext-oracle build directory, verifying it's the same.
Edit the PKGBUILD sha256sums to the checksum you just verified.
Either manually build with the edited PKGBUILD using makepkg or use your AUR helper if it has that capability.
If you see something similar to this, you can now install it with pacman.

==> Finished making: virtualbox-ext-oracle 7.0.6-1 (Sun Jan 22 00:11:00 2023)
:: aurch ==> Copied AUR package/s to host AURREPO:
     1  virtualbox-ext-oracle-7.0.6-1-any.pkg.tar.zst
:: aurch ==> Adding package/s to host 'AURREPO' database.
==> Extracting aur-repo.db.tar.gz to a temporary location...
==> Extracting aur-repo.files.tar.gz to a temporary location...
==> Adding package '/home/jeff/AUR/repo/virtualbox-ext-oracle-7.0.6-1-any.pkg.tar.zst'
  -> Computing checksums...
  -> Removing existing entry 'virtualbox-ext-oracle-7.0.4-1'...
  -> Creating 'desc' db entry...
  -> Creating 'files' db entry...
==> Creating updated database file '/home/jeff/AUR/repo/aur-repo.db.tar.gz'

I see people posting checksums here, but it's better if you determine if they're correct or not yourself.
No point in blindly copy/pasting when it's this easy to check.

please update checksums for 7.0.6 thanks

correct SHA256SUM for the file that gets downloaded in the PKGBUILD is

292961aa8723b54f96f89f6d8abf7d8e29259d94b7de831dbffb9ae15d346434 *Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-7.0.6.vbox-extpack

reference: https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.6/SHA256SUMS