VirtualBox Version and installer file:
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virtualbox-5.0_5.0.18-106667~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb
I purges the VirtualBox-5 like this:
Re-ran installation using GDebi package installer and got the follwing output:
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Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-5.0.
(Reading database ... 201658 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-5.0_5.0.18-106667~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-5.0 (5.0.18-106667~Ubuntu~xenial) ...
Setting up virtualbox-5.0 (5.0.18-106667~Ubuntu~xenial) ...
addgroup: The group `vboxusers' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Removing old VirtualBox pci kernel module ...done.
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules ...failed!
(modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
rcvboxdrv start gave follwing output:
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rcvboxdrv start
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules ...failed!
(modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)
Again removed VirtualBox using following command:
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sudo apt-get auto-remove virtualbox-5.0
Installation output:
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Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Setting up libqt4-opengl:amd64 (4:4.8.7+dfsg-5ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.23-0ubuntu3) ...
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-5.0.
(Reading database ... 201646 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox-5.0_5.0.18-106667~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-5.0 (5.0.18-106667~Ubuntu~xenial) ...
Setting up virtualbox-5.0 (5.0.18-106667~Ubuntu~xenial) ...
addgroup: The group `vboxusers' already exists as a system group. Exiting.
Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Removing old VirtualBox pci kernel module ...done.
Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules ...done.
Starting VirtualBox kernel modules ...failed!
(modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why)
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for systemd (229-4ubuntu4) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.15-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.5-2) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.13.3-6ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.3~bzr0+16.04.20160415-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.59ubuntu1) ...
dmesg file has just one line:
Forum gives warning vbox-install file too large so failed to attach.