Kernel driver not installed error

[PlantMP]

Good morning everyone. I've been having trouble trying to run 2 versions of VirtualBox now.

What I've done so far:

Installed VirtualBox from Software manager along with everything in there with VirtualBox written on it.
Result:

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Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908)

The VirtualBox Linux kernel driver (vboxdrv) is either not loaded or there is a permission problem with /dev/vboxdrv. Please install virtualbox-dkms package and load the kernel module by executing

'modprobe vboxdrv'

as root. If it is available in your distribution, you should install the DKMS package first. This package keeps track of Linux kernel changes and recompiles the vboxdrv kernel module if necessary.

where: suplibOsInit what: 3 VERR_VM_DRIVER_NOT_INSTALLED (-1908) - The support driver is not installed. On linux, open returned ENOENT 

Wrote this on terminal:

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sudo apt-get remove --purge --autoremove virtualbox{,-\*}

as recommended by a user from the linuxmint forum
Presumably, this should uninstall the previous version along with every file associated with it.

Installed this version of VirtualBox:
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtual ... _amd64.deb

Installed this extension pack:
https://download.virtualbox.org/virtual ... ox-extpack

Installed this Guess Additions
https://www.virtualbox.org/download/tes ... 120528.iso

Result:


More details can be found here:
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic. ... 0&t=264238
As you can see I've done a fair amount of troubleshooting to the best of my abilities.

Any solutions?

[PlantMP]

2 days. Time for a bump

[Martin]

Did you make sure that your system is not configured for secure boot?

[PlantMP]

Did you make sure that your system is not configured for secure boot?

Sorry I don't know what that means. I only started using Linux recent;y