[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#454348: Manually unpacking and running make and make install works

[Dennis Eckhaus]

Someone who doesn't like reading my book length novels replied to an 
nvidia how-to thread in the debian forum I had been kvetching about this in.

I tried going to /usr/src and tar xvjf virtualbox-ose.tar.bz2 after 
letting Aptitude update the stuff.

Module Assistant still unpacks the older deb and warns during 
auto-install that it is downgrading to the older version.

I upgraded again and this time was saved by the Debian Wiki article on 
Virtualbox.

I cd to the /usr/src/modules/virtualbox-ose after having untarred the 
new package.

make
make install

Magic!  This worked, and I could modprobe vboxdrv and it was using the 
new kernel module.

Most folks will not know to do this, so this is pretty serious until the 
new stuff from 2.6.23 gets all setup.

I'm sorry if it seems I'm being a pest, but I had no idea how to do this 
manually like I did.  That's module-assistant's job according to nearly 
every how-to I've seen on the net, except for that Debian wiki.  It only 
suggests this because Etch doesn't have what Lenny and Sid do, modules 
for virtualbox-ose. 

I'll go away now and use the thing.  Just wanted to let you know how I 
worked around the problem.  And that it is a real problem until the new 
stuff gets in that works properly.