Upgrading to 16.04

Peter petergoggin at bigpond.com
Fri Aug 19 11:53:30 UTC 2016



On 19/08/16 20:59, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>
> I still wonder what error messages the OP gets if running
>
> sudo apt update && sudo gdebi virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64deb
The script stopped with error :
sudo: gdebi: command not found
> or
>
> sudo apt update && sudo dpkg -i --force-depends virtualbox-5.1_5.1.4-110228~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64deb && sudo apt-get -f install
I then ran the above command which stopped with the error:
sudo: dkpg: command not found.

> Perhaps much better:
>
> "Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
>
> deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib
>
> [...]
>
> registering:
>
> wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
>
> [...]
>
> To install VirtualBox, do
>
> " -https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
>
> sudo apt update
> sudo apt install dkms virtualbox-5.1
>
> Regards,
> Ralf
>
>
I have yet to try the remaining suggestions.

Regards

Peter




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