[Pkg-virtualbox-devel] Bug#564555: Bug#564555: virtualbox-ose-guest-x11: uninstallable due to unmet dependencies

[Julien Cristau]

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 13:39:32 +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:

> On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 02:42:41AM -0500, Michael Gilbert wrote:
> > hi, the virtualbox video modules are currently uninstallable due to
> > unmet dependencies.  this is actually a bit odd because the current
> > xserver is actually newer than the one stated as required:
> 
> It probably needs a rebuild against said xorg version anyway so just changing
> the provides line wouldn't help. However, I cannot upgrade X atm because my
> system relies on fglrx which is not available for the latest xorg either. Hmm,
> maybe it works with the new X server. 
> 
You can run old X on your system and build vbox against the new headers
(especially since packages can easily be built in chroots).  Can't see
the problem there.

Cheers,
Julien