Building Virtualbox 7.2 on Debian Bookworm

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Virtualbox 7.2 fails to build on Debian Bookworm because it requires Qt >= 6.8 which is not available on this platform.

To build Virtualbox 7.2 on Debian Bookworm :

1/ build and install a recent version of Qt from sources following the build instructions for linux/X11
At this time, the latest version of Qt ( 6.9.1 ) builds fine on Debian Bookworm following these instructions.

2/ create a /etc/ld.so.conf.d/qt.conf file with the following content ( adapting the path to the location of your Qt build ) :

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/usr/local/Qt-6.9.1/lib

3/ configure the build of Virtualbox providing the location of your Qt build :

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./configure --with-qt-dir=/usr/local/Qt-6.9.1

then build and install Virtualbox.

4/ as root run the command

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ldconfig /usr/local/Qt-6.9.1/lib

( adapting the path to the location of your Qt build ) to avoid to have to provide LD_LIBRARY_PATH each time you run Virtualbox.