Virtualbox installation failure and consequent failure of Re: Virtualbox installation failure and consequent failure of Synaptic Package Manager

[Nils Kassube]

Henry Gladney wrote:
> Thank you, Nils, for the prompt response, however ...
>
> Responding to 200709141711.38941.kassube at gmx.net which recommended:
> "Maybe you should add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:"
>
> deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/ feisty non-free
>
> Tried this, but this did not repair Synaptic's reluctance to execute. 
> Same error message, even after an intervening Linux boot.

Did you reload the package information?

If synaptic doesn't start at all, you can reload the package information 
with the command

sudo apt-get update

in a terminal (e.g. konsole). Or you could use the adept package manager.


Nils