Oracle VirtualBox

Dick Dowdell dick.dowdell at gmail.com
Sat Oct 10 22:39:36 UTC 2015


When I've built the kernel modules for VirtualBox on Ubuntu, the following
packages needed to be installed first:

sudo apt-get install

   - build-essential
   - linux-headers-$(uname -r)

Regards,
Dick

On Sat, Oct 10, 2015 at 5:40 PM, Karagkiaouris Diamantis <
dkaragkiaouris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I appreciate your help, Emiliano. It doesn't change anything as it showed
> again the same error when trying to install virtualbox. Also, the latest
> repository is added by me manually. So, to come to a conclusion the
> VirtualBox in Ubuntu repository is erroneous or better "out of date" in
> concern to the default kernel version. So if anyone wants to install
> VirtualBox for now, he/sie should use VirtualBox.org repository, until the
> ubuntu version is updated.
>
> Regards,
> Diamantis
>
>
> Am 11/10/2015 um 12:24 πμ schrieb Emiliano Vazquez:
>
>> I'm at iPhone
>>
>> Change "vivid" to "trusty" in the last line
>>
>> Then
>>
>> Apt-get update and reinstall virtualbox
>>
>> Sorry for the minimal mail
>>
>> Best regards
>> Emiliano
>>
>> Enviado desde mi iPhone
>>
>> El 10 oct 2015, a las 5:43 p.m., Karagkiaouris Diamantis <
>>> dkaragkiaouris at gmail.com> escribió:
>>>
>>> This is the content of /etc/apt/sources.list
>>>
>>> #deb cdrom:[Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS _Trusty Tahr_ - Beta amd64 (20150805)]/
>>> trusty main restricted
>>>
>>> # See http://help.ubuntu.com/community/UpgradeNotes for how to upgrade
>>> to
>>> # newer versions of the distribution.
>>> deb http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
>>> deb-src http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty main restricted
>>>
>>> ## Major bug fix updates produced after the final release of the
>>> ## distribution.
>>> deb http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main restricted
>>> deb-src http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates main
>>> restricted
>>>
>>> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
>>> Ubuntu
>>> ## team. Also, please note that software in universe WILL NOT receive any
>>> ## review or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
>>> deb http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe
>>> deb-src http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty universe
>>> deb http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe
>>> deb-src http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates universe
>>>
>>> ## N.B. software from this repository is ENTIRELY UNSUPPORTED by the
>>> Ubuntu
>>> ## team, and may not be under a free licence. Please satisfy yourself as
>>> to
>>> ## your rights to use the software. Also, please note that software in
>>> ## multiverse WILL NOT receive any review or updates from the Ubuntu
>>> ## security team.
>>> deb http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
>>> deb-src http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty multiverse
>>> deb http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
>>> deb-src http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates multiverse
>>>
>>> ## N.B. software from this repository may not have been tested as
>>> ## extensively as that contained in the main release, although it
>>> includes
>>> ## newer versions of some applications which may provide useful features.
>>> ## Also, please note that software in backports WILL NOT receive any
>>> review
>>> ## or updates from the Ubuntu security team.
>>> deb http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main
>>> restricted universe multiverse
>>> deb-src http://gr.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-backports main
>>> restricted universe multiverse
>>>
>>> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main restricted
>>> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security main
>>> restricted
>>> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe
>>> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security universe
>>> deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse
>>> deb-src http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty-security multiverse
>>>
>>> ## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
>>> ## 'partner' repository.
>>> ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and
>>> the
>>> ## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
>>> # deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
>>> # deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu trusty partner
>>>
>>> ## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
>>> ## developers who want to ship their latest software.
>>> deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main
>>> deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu trusty main
>>>
>>> ## Virtual Box
>>> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian vivid contrib
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Diamantis
>>>
>>> Am 10/10/2015 um 11:38 μμ schrieb Emiliano Vazquez:
>>>>
>>>>> El 10/10/15 a las 17:20, Karagkiaouris Diamantis escribió:
>>>>> but i think that it is build for 3.13 kernel or some version older
>>>>> than 3.19 which is now the latest Ubuntu 14.04 version. The first packages
>>>>> you are referring to are used for build but as far as i now virtualbox-5.0
>>>>> is only available from Official Virtualbox.org repository. Maybe i am
>>>>> wrong. I am just starting with .deb Distros.
>>>>>
>>>> Please post the content of /etc/apt/sources.list
>>>>
>>>> Best regards.
>>>>
>>>> Emiliano.
>>>>
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