When building the latest version of whonix on buster the builder script 1120_prepare-build-machine tries to install the “virtualbox-source” and “virtualbox-qt” packages. Since they are not available on buster it fails.
Need to be installed from Debian sid.
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I was able to successfully build using this method but it’s a dirty hack and it’s not recommended by debian creators. Are virtualbox-source, virtualbox-qt and virtualbox-dkms packages really needed or a simple virtualbox package from the virtualbox official repo is enough?
There are no VirtualBox packages in Debian buster whatsoever. None.
https://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=virtualbox
[1] VirtualBox from VirtualBox repository might work too but I trust Debian sid over VirtualBox repository.
Third party repositories are discouraged as per:
Agreed however no better option than Whonix VirtualBox deprecation.
Whonix ™ Virtualization Platforms
They have valid point too, however see [1].
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