Timeline for VirtualBox 5.2 Won't Install on Linux Mint
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| Feb 7, 2018 at 17:18 | vote | accept | reelnoncents | ||
| Feb 7, 2018 at 2:22 | answer | added | ivanivan | timeline score: 1 | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 23:22 | comment | added | reelnoncents | Great, thanks @ivanivan! I had a feeling it was that but don't know enough to be sure. I don't want to be a bother, but can you provide any further advice? I'd like install 5.2 because apparently a solution for another problem I'm experiencing (Starting up any VM freezes the entire system)... was to completely purge 5.0 and install the newest (5.2). My package manager defaults to 5.0 so I'm following the Linux install instructions on VB's website. Should I restart the install with the Xenial package instead of Zesty? virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 21:05 | comment | added | ivanivan | Your Ubuntu core (of Mint) is xenial but you are trying to use sources from 2 releases later. You are heading for a world of hurt if you continue down this path. If you must have a newer-than-5.0.40 version of VB, then either upgrade your distro or use an alternative install (not the package manager!) | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 20:04 | comment | added | reelnoncents | Additionally, your command above returns the following result: $ apt-cache madison virtualbox virtualbox | 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 | http://cosmos.cites.illinois.edu/pub/ubuntu xenial-updates/multiverse amd64 Packages virtualbox | 5.0.18-dfsg-2build1 | http://cosmos.cites.illinois.edu/pub/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 Packages | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 20:03 | comment | added | reelnoncents | Thanks for your response @ivanivan. Pardon my noob ignorance, but I'm not 100% how to answer that for you. What I can say though is my resolve.conf file contains the following two lines.. the second of which VirtualBox's install instructions told me to add... 1:#deb cdrom:[Linux Mint 18.3 _Sylvia_ - Release amd64 20171124]/ xenial contrib main non-free 2:deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian zesty contrib | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 18:34 | comment | added | ivanivan | What repos are you pointing to? My default repos, apt-cache madison virtualbox only shows 5.0.40 and 5.0.18 available... | |
| S Feb 6, 2018 at 18:05 | history | suggested | aliceinpalth | CC BY-SA 3.0 | Grammatical changes for clarity and formatting fixes |
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 17:30 | answer | added | user274382 | timeline score: 1 | |
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| Feb 6, 2018 at 16:02 | history | edited | Vlastimil Burián | edited tags | |
| Feb 6, 2018 at 15:59 | history | asked | reelnoncents | CC BY-SA 3.0 |