Warning: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded.

[har johnson]

Hello,

I am trying to install virtual box on Ubuntu Bionic. I am not very tech savy so any help in as clear as possible terms would be much appreciated. Upon unpacking the package and attempting to run VirtualBox I am getting the following error:

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ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ VirtualBox
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (4.18.0-15-generic) or it failed to
         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

           sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: error while loading shared libraries: libQt5PrintSupport.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Does anyone know how to "recompile the kernel module" as it is suggesting? I am new to linux and all this stuff. I have tried running sudo /sbin/vboxconfig as it also mentions but it returns "command not found"

Any help to point me in the right direction would be awesome.

Thanks!

[har johnson]

ello? Is there anybody out there out theree

Browsing through The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide...seems pretty straight forward. Confident i'll get this figure out within the next 32 years for sure : )