[VirtualBox(R) Images - Technical Support] installing Virtualbox "Guest Additions" the Debian/Ubuntu way

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Hi Virtualbox Image users and developers

I have a small input for your documentation "Installing Guest
Additions on Debian" and "Installing Guest Additions on Ubuntu". You
describe there how to install it without packages from the
Debian/Ubuntu distribution. I prefer to do things the Debian way -
with package management :-)

Debian provides the dpkgs virtualbox-ose-guest-source and
virtualbox-ose-guest-utils for Etch (Backports), Lenny and SID. After
installing those both packages you can build the kernel module with
"module-assistant" (see README.Debian). Ubuntu is based on Debian so
there are the same steps necessary.

http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/virtualbox-ose-guest-source
http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/misc/virtualbox-ose-guest-utils

http://packages.ubuntu.com//hardy/misc/virtualbox-ose-guest-source
http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/misc/virtualbox-ose-guest-utils

cheers
Simon

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