[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#520716: virtualbox-ose: Installation requires -486-Kernel

[Jason A. Spiro]

Daniel Baumann wrote:
>...
>because you have automatic installation of recommends enabled,
>virtualbox-ose recommends virtualbox-ose-modules,
>virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-486 is alphabetically the first package
>that provides virtualbox-ose-modules, and
>virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.26-1-486 depends on linux-image-2.6.26-1-486.
>
>if you don't want that, either disable automatic installation of
>recommendet packages, or report a bug against apt that it should also
>consider specified packages for dependency resolving upon installing.

Good idea.  Thank you for explaining the problem Daniel.  I reported
it as a new bug against apt at http://bugs.debian.org/534348 since the
problem affects me too.

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