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Author: KatolaZ
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] New here and needing help about backports
On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 11:53:59AM +0200, Stephane Ascoet wrote:
> Hi, I'm using Devuan at work since the Jessie release, migrating from Debian
> Wheezy. I did the same on my mother computer last Christmas. And I just
> updated the computer of my work to Ascii last Monday.
>
> Each update need lot of work after the process because lots of configuration
> files and scripts are overwritten or don't work as they did before, but it's
> not the point of this message. Now I'm trying to update VirtualBox with the
> one in Backports. I sucessfully updated the kernel doing "aptitude install
> linux-image-4.16.0-0.bpo.2-amd64".
> On <https://pkginfo.devuan.org/cgi-bin/d1pkgweb-query?search=virtualbox&release=ascii>
> I can see "[ascii-backports] virtualbox-5.2.10-dfsg-6~bpo9+1".
>
> So I "aptitude update" but after that, "aptitude search virtualbox" only
> gives me "i virtualbox-5.1". What's going on???
>


Welcome Stephane,

$ apt-cache policy virtualbox

please.

HND

KatolaZ

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