virtualbox 5.2 dependecies with libcurl4 -> fixed with 5.2.8 Ubuntu 18.04 build

[fenris]

hi, latest libcurl4 replacing libcurl3 in Ubuntu Bionic Beaver breaks the installation dependencies.

Installing libcurl4 will removed virtualbox 5.2.8-121009~Ubuntu~zesty. later can't install virtualbox if using libcurl4

[fenris]

$ sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.2_5.2.8-121009~Ubuntu~zesty_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-5.2.
(Reading database ... 370276 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack virtualbox-5.2_5.2.8-121009~Ubuntu~zesty_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-5.2 (5.2.8-121009~Ubuntu~zesty) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-5.2:
 virtualbox-5.2 depends on libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2); however:
  Package libcurl3 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-5.2 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for systemd (237-3ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-20) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-11ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.23-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.60ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.9-2) ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-5.2

[Michael Thayer]

For our information,

1. Have you tried the "all distributions" installer package? It is a shell script, but it is reasonably clean.
2. Do you know when the library interfaces in Bionic will freeze? There doesn't seem much point in producing packages if there may still be version bumps. This is probably not the same as feature freeze: GNOME was bumped from 3.26.1 to 3.27.91 after the feature freeze.

[Michael Thayer]

Update: it looks like there will be no ABI bumps without a feature freeze exception (bugs with the [FFe] tag against ubuntu-release<1>.

1. ​https://bugs.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-release/+subscribedbugs?field.searchtext=%5Bffe%5D

[mightyiam]

Following

[pdecat]

Following

[Michael Thayer]

Please give the 18.04 build on the Linux Downloads<1> page a try.

1. https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

[pdecat]

Fix confirmed with 5.2.8, thanks!

PS: somehow, I did not receive any notification of updates to this ticket.