Sigh.
Module Assistant takes the older package and builds, downgrading so that
package management will upgrade to a useless Virtualbox if not put on
hold. So that's not a good reason to put the package on hold? I can't
agree. No newer deb package is made in the folder when upgraded so it
is understandable that Module Assistant uses the only package there, the
older one.
Kernel-package only has its configuration files left over on my system.
Aptitude must have removed it, diagnosing somehow that it wasn't being
used. So I suppose I'd just need to reinstall that to use the second
install method suggested in the readme.debian.
Third method works, but doesn't tell the user what folder to cd into and
that just extracting with tar xvif as a first step, cd to the folder the
second, and running make and make install from there and adding vboxdrv
to /etc/modules will actually get this thing going. A visit to the wiki
page on the internet is required for that.
So that's the result of RTFM.
If there's no problem, why is the deb file in the folder the older
package after upgrading to the new package? And although it is frowned
upon to discuss, the old NVidia deb file sits in there too even though
the Debian NVidia packages are no longer installed.
This entire bug report appears to be a discussion of whether the fact
that these things aren't working properly is a problem or not. I say
that the knowledge that these things will be fixed at a future date is
not a reason to say there is no problem.
This is not even my bug report. I am simply attempting to clarify to
everyone dismissing the original poster's report that it deserves
support as a legitimate bug until the standard suggested installation
methods do work as designed again. In response I am hearing a
defensive, almost haughty attitude suggesting that it is normal for
things to be broken and that RTFM will solve the problem only I must be
having since everything is working perfectly.
Everything is not working perfectly, or the original poster wouldn't
have pointed this problem out here, and everyone who attempts the
standard installation method for using this package will experience this
loop where the older package is used and then upgraded (unless put on
hold) so the whole procedure must be applied again. Only manual
installation works, and the exact procedure must be hunted down to be
informed enough to get done properly.
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