On Wed, 2014-06-04 at 14:17 +0100, Richard Turner wrote: > It's been quite a while since I needed go install VBox: now that I > already have the dependencies installed I can just download and > install the RPM from Oracle's site whenever VBox notifies me of an > update. However, initially I used instructions from If Not True Then > False to install VBox. One can see there that you're right; gcc, > kernel-devel, etc. are required for compiling the kernel modules. So, > yes, there's certainly scope there to make VBox installation far > easier than it currently is. openSUSE and Debian both have VirtualBox in their FLOSS repos (though it looks like Debian has removed a few files). Is there a particular reason Fedora does not, or is it just that it hasn't been packaged? I've Googled this a few times but found no explanation.
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