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<font face="Verdana">Squeeze came with the VirtualBox guest
additions pre-installed, I thought wheezy did to but wouldn't bet
money on it without installing again.<br>
So does openSUSE.<br>
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Perhaps that is what Alexey was talking about.<br>
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In any case trying to install the additions from VBox there is a
warning to remove the current ones first.<br>
</font>So there is a mechanism to verify.<br>
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On 08/30/2011 01:38 PM, Felix Geyer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">On 30.08.2011 18:21, Michael Thayer wrote:
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<pre wrap="">One of the things I am worried about is situations like when the system
has installed some old Additions version and the user installs current
Additions following our instructions, and then the system does some
minor update, partly or fully overwriting our Additions and the end
result is not very pretty.
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The additions installer could detect if the distribution package is installed
and offer to remove it.
On 30.08.2011 19:00, Alexey Eromenko wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Do the other distributions do things like Ubuntu, or do they just
install the package silently?
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<pre wrap="">openSUSE, Debian and Mandriva just install GA silently. Yes, there is
a potential risk of over-writing new GA by doing minor update. (But so
far heard no complains about this from users)
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On Debian the guest additions package isn't silently installed.
Users need to manually install it.
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