On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 12:29:56PM -0400, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote: > Yesterday I downloaded the virtualbox package from the Ubuntu repository > (because I just found it's not in Debian anymore) and compiled it on > Debian. Because all the software that I can't find compiled in the > Debian normal repository, I get them from either Ubuntu or Kali and > compile them myself. Yes I compiled all the packages that are in Kali > but not in Debian, to make my own Buster with Kali software. That was > "hell of a mess" but as I did it before with Stretch, I already had a base.
I believe most people would refuse to support this system, because it's not in a state that anyone but you will understand, or know how to troubleshoot. If you have an issue with virtualbox specifically, I would suggest you go to a virtualbox support channel. They'll know much more about it than a generic Debian channel does. The best you'll get out of #debian is probably a bot factoid that points you to a wiki page and/or bug reports that describe the issues with virtualbox, and why it was removed from Debian. If your real issue is "how do I support my frankendebian built out of hand-built packages from three different distributions", well, we don't know, and we don't want to waste our time trying to find out.
