Linux Mint

LMDE has an Ubuntu package not Debian for virtualbox-5.0

Bug #1477290 reported by Adam Baker
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Bug Description

Running Betsy Cinnamon 64 bit

I installed Virtualbox from the Oracle web site as I couldn't see version 5.0 in the repositories. As Betsy is based on Debian Jessie i believed that the Jessie version was the most likely to work and avoid any dependency issues. I've now been prompted to "upgrade" to the latest version as Ubuntu as alphabetically later than Debian.

$ apt-cache policy virtualbox-5.0
virtualbox-5.0:
  Installed: 5.0.0-101573~Debian~jessie
  Candidate: 5.0.0-101573~Ubuntu~trusty
  Version table:
     5.0.0-101573~Ubuntu~trusty 0
        700 http://extra.linuxmint.com/ betsy/main amd64 Packages
 *** 5.0.0-101573~Debian~jessie 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

I'd expect to see a Debian package rather than an Ubuntu package in LMDE if one exists.

Tags: lmde
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John Franklin (ubuntu-sentaidigital) wrote :

Is this why /etc/apt/preferences.d/official-package-repositories.pref has a Pin for "release o=Ubuntu"?

As a workaround, the OP could set the Ubuntu pin to 499 instead of 500.

tags: added: lmde
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