error instaling Virtualbox update

[Fred Roller]

Fred Roller wrote:
> Rev. Melissa Lane wrote:
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Thank you so much for helping here is what the terminal tells me:
mrowe1225 at mrowe1225-desktop:~$ virtualbox
The program 'virtualbox' is currently not installed.  You can install it 
by typing:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-qt
virtualbox: command not found
mrowe1225 at mrowe1225-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-qt
[sudo] password for mrowe1225:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree      

    [snipped for relevance, install went normally until this error -- fred]


* Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules                                    
[ OK ]
* Starting VirtualBox kernel 
modules                                            * No suitable module 
for running kernel found
                                                                         
[fail]
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox-ose, action "restart" failed.

Setting up virtualbox-ose-source (3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1) ...
Adding modules to DKMS build system
Doing initial module builds

Error! Your kernel source for kernel 2.6.31-20-generic-pae cannot be 
found at
/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic-pae/build or 
/lib/modules/2.6.31-20-generic-pae/source.
dpkg: error processing virtualbox-ose-source (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Setting up virtualbox-ose-qt (3.0.8-dfsg-1ubuntu1) ...

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Onto to your OP [Orignial Post]:

    You seem to be missing source code for Virtualbox to build 
properly.  /If/ you don't have a virtual machine built yet then you can try

    sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-ose-qt
    sudo apt-get install virtualbox

If you have a virtual machine you want to preserve then

    locate *.vdi

which will produce a result similar to:

    froller at metis:.VirtualBox$ locate *.vdi
    /Crypt/Virtual/virtualmachines/8.04_server.vdi

Once you know where your machine is located lets move it out of harms way.

    cd ~
    mkdir backup
    cp /location/of/your/virtualmachine.vdi ~/backup/
    ls backup

"cd ~" moves to your home directory, "mkdir backup" creates a new 
directory, "cp /locatio... ~/backup/" creates a copy of your virtual 
machine's harddrive from which we can rebuild later, "ls backup" lists 
the backup directory to ensure the file copied.

once the file is moved then do the purge/install mentioned above.  Let 
us know if this results in the missing source files again.  Remember, 
reply to the list.

   

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