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I'm no expert but I would guess doing a search in Synaptic for virtual box should find most of what is important to Ubuntu which is why they prefer installing from the repositories.

Try that and do a complete removal of everything virtual box, my first installation was a nightmare and I had to completely reinstall Ubuntu, on my second attempt everything is working great.

The guys on channel vbox on irc.freenode.net were pretty helpful too.

I am wondering about this too,Any developments?

So any solution?

Developers?

And now there is an update when i wanted to inbstall this and i'll get this:
E: / var/cache/apt/archives/virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-16-generic_24_i386.deb: attempt to to transfer of `/lib/modules/2.6.24-16-generic/misc/vboxdrv.ko, what sits also in parcel virtualbox

Hi,

to remove completely some packages, type in following:

sudo apt-get remove --purge file_name

where file_name is the package you want to remove.
to reconfigure your packages it is useful to type in

sudo dpkg --configure -a

after that you can try reinstalling VirtualBox. And if it's not necessary for you to have for example USB - Support, the OSE - Edition is enough...

Installing from terminal:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-16-
generic

after that command you should have VBox. After that you'll need to add your username to the vboxgroup, do it with that command:

sudo usermod -a -G vboxusers $USER

that should work
greetings from vienna
DaLaunge

Hi,

to remove completely some packages, type in following:
Quote:
sudo apt-get remove --purge file_name

Which packages do i need to uninstall i installed package from site and the apt-get install package;)

sproxy wrote:Hi,

to remove completely some packages, type in following:
Quote:
sudo apt-get remove --purge file_name

Which packages do i need to uninstall i installed package from site and the apt-get install package;)

This is what I did:
I had first the ose installed, but I needed USB support. I deinstalled it and downloaded the hardy sun package virtualbox_1.6.0-30421_Ubuntu_hardy_i386.deb and installed it. But I could not start VirtualBox.
I removed it first manually again and then also with dbpk -r virtualbox
After reinstall I was missing vboxdrv in /etc/init.d
Then I went into synaptic package manager for other reasons. But saw my virtualbox by sun there. I did this time a !complete! removal. Reinstalled the downloaded package.... now it works /usr/bin/VirtualBox

installed VB again and now i get this when i start up after installing setup +module

Could not load the settings file '/home/jef/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml' (VERR_OPEN_FAILED).
FATAL ERROR: Attribute 'version' has a value, '1.3-linux', that does not match its #FIXED value, '1.2-linux'
Location: '/home/jef/.VirtualBox/VirtualBox.xml', line 5, column 83.