Heads up, there have been a number of other people on this list that installed virtualbox the way you just did. It results in dependency problems down the road that can prevent security updates.
There are 2 methods listed on the VirtualBox website 1) Quick 'n Dirty 2) Correct and Clean You went for option #1. Good luck ;-) On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 1:41 PM Dick Steffens <[email protected]> wrote: > On 10/29/18 7:46 AM, Dick Steffens wrote: > > > When next I have time, which might not be until tomorrow, I'll try > > getting the version made for Ubuntu 18 from Oracle and see if that > > works. That's what I have on my desktop and it's working well. > > I finished today's work early, so I had time to download: > > virualbox-5.2_5.2.20-125813-Ubuntu-bionic-amd64.deb > > from the Oracle website. It installed without complaint once I fully > removed what was there with Synaptic. Then I successfully imported a > .ova and it works fine. > > The only thing missing was an icon to launch VirtualBox, so I created > one by right-clicking on the desktop, clicking on Create Launcher ..., > and filling in the blanks. The command to start the VirtualBox GUI is > virtualbox. > > With that done, I think I have everything I used to have on the laptop > before the SSD installation. Now to give it a few days of testing under > normal operating conditions. > > Thanks to all who offered advice, whether I took it or not. :-) > > > -- > Regards, > > Dick Steffens > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
