| 1 | | I took virtualbox-6.1_6.1.14-140239~Ubuntu~eoan_amd64.deb (".deb" from now on) and with some trickery "installed" (untarred) it on my Slackware Current64 instance. The GUI came up OK, but booting the VM failed with a message like "the console is not enabled". This looks like a systemd thing and Slackware is non-systemd -- it still uses ConsoleKit2 and optionally elogind. As this might be the first worm out of a whole can I cut this experiment short.[[BR]] |
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| 3 | | To my surprise the VB Qt version was indicated as 5.15.1 (the Slackware version!), not 5.12.6 as I expected. I verified that the Xubuntu Qt version is 5.12.6, so the .deb version picks up the instance's Qt version. |
| 4 | | The fact that VirtualBox-6.1.14-140239-Linux_amd64.run (".run" from now on) reports its Qt version to be 5.6.1 on this Slackware Current64 instance indicates that the .run version brings its own QT version with it.[[BR]] |
| 5 | | In other words: my "just a thought" as I described in my previous post should be more nuanced ... |