[PLUG] Resolved: Installing VirtualBox on Linux Mint 19

Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com
Tue Oct 30 03:55:25 UTC 2018


On 10/29/18 5:02 PM, Ben Koenig wrote:
> It's a different way of installing the same thing
>
> The second option further down is adding it to your repository so that it
> doesn't break apt.
>
> Remember why I suggested this - You want to be able to maintain the ability
> to install system updates.
>
> If you install a third party deb package manually, you will probably end up
> losing the ability to install other packages and updates from the repos.
> Emphasis on probably, it depends on how far your distro has deviated from
> the version Oracle supports.
>
> Installing the repo makes apt aware of it, which means you will avoid lots
> of stupid errors when checking for updates.

Okay. That makes sense.


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Dick Steffens




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