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Asked by Vincent Bastos ( Lava Lab Software )

Just wondering why the ubuntu virtualbox package is older than the Debian one (3.2 as opposed to 4, and whether I can do anything to help?

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

Shows how to get version 4 (This is the non-open one but does have USB accessing ability)

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Vincent Bastos ( Lava Lab Software ) (vincentbastos) said : 		#2

Thank you, I had noticed that. I guess I am trying to understand how the package management works in terms of updating Ubuntu repositories.

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Vincent Bastos ( Lava Lab Software ) (vincentbastos) said : 		#3

My question is completely void as the virtualbox-ose package for Debian stable ( Squeeze ) is not 4.0, but actually 3.2.