virtualbox failed Solved

[sevenmpd]

Good Evening I been using linux mint for a few weeks now and thought I'd start to install Virtualbox so after watching a could of YT videos I downloaded virtualbox 6.1.10 and the Ubuntu 1804-19.04-19.10 to downloads. I then installed from downloads but the install failed from the synaptic packet manager I tried to uninstall it but that also failed so i'm now stuck in the middle would appreciate so advice please.

[spamegg]

Yeah that does happen. Ubuntu comes configured for Virtualbox 5. Some of the sub-packages needed for it will conflict with Virtualbox 6.
First do this

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sudo apt remove virtualbox virtualbox-guest-additions-iso virtualbox-dkms

Then try reinstalling the Virtualbox 6 you downloaded.
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sudo apt install dkms
sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

The last one is needed to recompile kernel modules to make it work with Virtualbox 6.

[sevenmpd]

Entered the first line of code and attempted to re-install VB but it again failed had the idea to the failure report maybe of help

VB fail.odt

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[ralplpcr]

Entered the first line of code and attempted to re-install VB but it again failed had the idea to the failure report maybe of helpVB fail.odt

Did you follow the instructions listed in your VB fail.odt document?

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There were problems setting up VirtualBox.  To re-start the set-up process, run
  /sbin/vboxconfig
as root.  If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may need to sign the
kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load
them. Please see your Linux system's documentation for more information.

I would also suggest following the instructions here - - as mentioned, several of the libraries included in the base Ubuntu are configured for VirtualBox 5. You'll need to update them to work with VirtualBox 6.

[AndyMH]

Or install using the instructions posted by gm10 in this topic (2nd post):
viewtopic.php?f=47&t=307595&p=1754953&h ... x#p1754953

[sevenmpd]

Thanks all for advice re failed instructions ran the script resulting
harry@harry-SATELLITE-L50-C:~$ /sbin/vboxconfig
bash: /sbin/vboxconfig: No such file or directory
Look at both posts and tried various suggestions for install to no avail .

[ralplpcr]

harry@harry-SATELLITE-L50-C:~$ /sbin/vboxconfig
bash: /sbin/vboxconfig: No such file or directory

You appear to have missed the bit where it stated
To re-start the set-up process, run
/sbin/vboxconfig
as root.

That means you need to run sudo /sbin/vboxconfig. That sudo is important.
I suspect that it's something small like this which was overlooked and is preventing your installation from succeeding. But if you don't provide more details, there's not much we can do to assist?

[AndyMH]

You would be far better off purging virtualbox completely from your system (use synaptic) and installing using the instructions given in the link in my post. It is only four lines in a terminal!

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echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bionic contrib" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list 
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - 
apt update 
apt install virtualbox-6.1

All you have to do is copy/paste the lines one at a time into a terminal.

[Pierre]

this is an very common VirtualBox issue,
and the Normal Fix is to to run sudo /sbin/vboxconfig
- - which is an message, that is often given by the VirtualBox program, itself.

the same issue, can often arise, after any Linux Kernel update, as well.

[sevenmpd]

When I run sudo /sbin/vboxconfig I get
sudo: /sbin/vboxconfig: command not found

I have tried purging virtualbox completely via synaptic packet manager but as I said earlier it gets so far and then generates a error message which I was going to copy however I now find I cannot open the synaptic packet manager I get

I get then feeling i'm going to need a fresh install of mint

[sevenmpd]

And now this

[BG405]

There is, if I recall correctly*, an option in Synaptic to "fix broken packages". Have you tried that?

* I haven't needed it for some time & I'm not on my Mint system at the momemt so will need to run up a VM to check.

[sevenmpd]

BG405 thanks for the suggestion but as I have said above I cannot open Synaptic

[BG405]

Ah, I just read your prior post properly .. thought from the pics it was actually opening but getting stuck when you tried to install or remove.

Try this in a Terminal:

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sudo cat /var/lib/dpkg/lock

If it returns anything other than a blank prompt, you need to delete it:

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sudo rm -rf /var/lib/dpkg/lock

.. then create a new blank one:

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sudo nano /var/lib/dpkg/lock

Don't put anything in the file; simply CTRL+O to write and CTRL+X to exit the nano text editor. Then try Synaptic again.

[sevenmpd]

Many thanks to all I have solved the later part of my problem by reinstalling mint as for virtualbox think I'll give it a miss !