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virtualbox package

  1. Bug #1629870
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 1629870

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Stefan (tecoscr) wrote : Re: Trouble installing mainline kernel 4.8: virtualbox-dkms 5.0.24-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1: virtualbox kernel module failed to build

I tried to install from the PPA linked above (https://launchpad.net/~costamagnagianfranco/+archive/ubuntu/virtualbox-ppa), but it made things worse. The installation didn't go through. Instead, there's an error message.

Setting up virtualbox-ext-pack (5.1.8-1~ubuntu16.04.1~ppa1) ...
virtualbox-ext-pack: downloading: http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.1.8/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-5.1.8.vbox-extpack
The file will be downloaded into /usr/share/virtualbox-ext-pack
/usr/lib/virtualbox/VBoxManage: error while loading shared libraries: VBoxDDU.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-ext-pack (--configure):
 subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 127
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-ext-pack
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

Now Synaptic lists the packages as installed, but they do not run. Removing them also won't work, yielding yet another error message:
E: virtualbox-ext-pack: subprocess installed pre-removal script returned error exit status 127