[Slackbuilds-users] Building an older version of VirtualBox

Ryan P.C. McQuen ryan.q at linux.com
Mon Aug 10 20:51:38 UTC 2015


On 8/10/15, JCA <1.41421 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am working in a project which assumes the presence of VirtualBox
> 4.3.10 - it has to be exactly that version. The current Slackbuilds
> repository builds 4.3.24. I tried using the virtualbox.tar.gz tarball
> for 4.3.24, just changing the version number before launching the
> compilation. However, this fails for the Slackbuilds script attempts
> to patch the VirtualBox source code - which it assumes to be 4.3.24,
> not 4.3.10.
>
> Rather than attempting to hack this code, I think that the easiest
> alternative is to try and get the virtualbox.tar.gz tarball that
> Slackbuilds used to build VritualBox 4.3.10 in its day. Anybody in
> this forum where I can download this tarball from?

http://slackbuilds.org/cgit/slackbuilds/log/?qt=grep&q=virtualbox

Looks like 4.3.10 is on that list.

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