On Saturday 02 October 2021 02:17:43 pm Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 12:34:50PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 02, 2021 at 11:57:51AM -0400, Roy J. Tellason, Sr. wrote: > > > In recent messaging here I touched on how I'd determined that my > > > workstation was way behind being current. Apparently I needed to go > > > 8->9->10->11. I tried the first of those steps, and things did not go > > > well in a number of ways... > > > > > > For some reason, the software decided to remove virtualbox. > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/VirtualBox > > If you really need to run a VM, you may well be able to convert the > virtualbox VM to something portable suitable for, say, QEMU.
I'm not familiar with that at all, nor with how I would go about such a conversion... > More important is to get the important machine updated - I thought that's what I was doing. I didn't expect so much stuff to break in the process. > and to then replace the 8 you've installed on the laptop you're writing from. I had 10 on it before, along with some ham radio related stuff, but I hadn't really invested a whole lot of time into configuring, etc. Once I get beyond this nonsense I expect that installing 11 on it and re-installing those programs won't be much of an issue. -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
