Arch Linux - News: virtualbox-ext-vnc >= 7.2.12-2 requires manual intervention

2026-07-21 - Christian Hesse
Previously, we installed its contents in a way that made pacman not aware of the files (using VBoxManage extpack install ... from an install script). To mitigate issues during upgrade, you can use one of the following methods:
pacman -Syu --overwrite '/usr/lib/virtualbox/ExtensionPacks/VNC/*'
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