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module-assistant package

what is m-a?

Asked by Sidarth Dasari

I was installing virtual box and I came across instructions that included something like this.
sudo apt-get m-a virtualbox-ose
sudo apt-get m-a prepare virtualbox-ose

What is m-a?

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Best Felipe Xavier (lipe-loko94) said : 		#1

m-a is the module-assistant tool. Output from m-a --help: "module-assistant is the tool to get debianized source of kernel modules, build module package from it and install them. The most frequently used command may be auto-install followed by the 'alli' argument."

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Sidarth Dasari (sirsid) said : 		#2

Thanks Felipe Xavier, that solved my question.