Installing VirtualBox on Mint 17 KDE failed

[Brian Cluff]

In the information that apt gave when you installed was a section that 
looked like:

Suggested packages:
   libvncserver0-dbg virtualbox-guest-additions-iso vde2
Recommended packages:
   virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-source virtualbox-qt

For Virtualbox to work you have to have the kernel modules provided by 
the package virtualbox-dkms for it to work.  Why that's not a dependency 
I can't tell you.  I would also recommend that you install virtualbox-qt 
and virtualbox-guest-additions-iso to get a complete install of virtualbox.

I know that Ubunutu has turned on APT's system to automatically install 
recommended packages.  Mint must have turned that off.  The downside is 
obvious, you get broken or partially functional software, the upside is 
that when you install stuff it can be smaller because it doesn't drag in 
a whole bunch of other stuff automatically.  I believe that Ubuntu's 
setting has greatly helped promote the myth that KDE programs are huge 
and bloated because when the Unity folks install a KDE program is also 
brings in various other programs that aren't essential to it's core 
functionality.... but then again, the programs are feature rich when 
they do get on your system.
For Ubuntu people that don't want the bloat you can add the 
--no-install-recommends to your apt-get command to tell it to just 
install the program you are requesting and any of it listed 
dependencies, but nothing else.

Brian Cluff

On 08/16/2014 08:43 PM, techlists at phpcoderusa.com wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I installed Mint 17 KDE on my desktop today and man very happy so far.....
>
> Trying to get virtual box running.
>
> I read that i should run the command "sudo apt-get install virtualbox"
> so I did.
>
> This is the output:
>
> eading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree
> Reading state information... Done
> The following extra packages will be installed:
>    libgsoap4 libvncserver0
> Suggested packages:
>    libvncserver0-dbg virtualbox-guest-additions-iso vde2
> Recommended packages:
>    virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-source virtualbox-qt
> The following NEW packages will be installed:
>    libgsoap4 libvncserver0 virtualbox
> 0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 519 not upgraded.
> Need to get 16.2 MB of archives.
> After this operation, 60.3 MB of additional disk space will be used.
> Do you want to continue? [Y/n] Y
> Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe libgsoap4 amd64
> 2.8.16-2 [525 kB]
> Get:2 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main libvncserver0 amd64
> 0.9.9+dfsg-1ubuntu1 [168 kB]
> Get:3 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/multiverse virtualbox
> amd64 4.3.10-dfsg-1 [15.5 MB]
> Fetched 16.2 MB in 15s (1,071 kB/s)
> Selecting previously unselected package libgsoap4:amd64.
> (Reading database ... 150801 files and directories currently installed.)
> Preparing to unpack .../libgsoap4_2.8.16-2_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking libgsoap4:amd64 (2.8.16-2) ...
> Selecting previously unselected package libvncserver0:amd64.
> Preparing to unpack .../libvncserver0_0.9.9+dfsg-1ubuntu1_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking libvncserver0:amd64 (0.9.9+dfsg-1ubuntu1) ...
> Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox.
> Preparing to unpack .../virtualbox_4.3.10-dfsg-1_amd64.deb ...
> Unpacking virtualbox (4.3.10-dfsg-1) ...
> Processing triggers for man-db (2.6.7.1-1) ...
> Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
> ureadahead will be reprofiled on next reboot
> Setting up libgsoap4:amd64 (2.8.16-2) ...
> Setting up libvncserver0:amd64 (0.9.9+dfsg-1ubuntu1) ...
> Setting up virtualbox (4.3.10-dfsg-1) ...
>   * Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules [ OK ]
>   * Starting VirtualBox kernel modules         * No suitable module for
> running kernel found
> [fail]
> invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
> Processing triggers for libc-bin (2.19-0ubuntu6) ...
> Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-16) ...
>
> - - - -
>
> It looks to have failed.  any suggestions?
>
> Thanks!
> Keith
>
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