I have to sign off for tonight my time, but digest what I have said, and I'll be back to answer any questions I can.Ĭlick to expand.Thank you Wizard! Using the sudo apt-get -f install command, it looks like virtualbox-ext-pack was finally released. Check at the bottom of your Synaptic window pane for mention of broken packages, if one or more is mentioned, go to Edit - Fix Broken Packages. V5.2 of Virtualbox is not in the Repos yet, but version 5.1.30-2 is.
But it may not be the latest, cutting edge, version. It has been tested, and it is considered stable. The stock in the warehouse meets a certain enforced standard, it is approved and certified. Think of your Linux Distro as being your Business, and when you don't have something in stock that someone would like, you order it from the warehouse. Or in the case of Linux Mint, those of Mint AND Ubuntu. When you are in Synaptic, you are viewing that Linux Distro's Repository (aka Repo) contents.
deb file, GDebi would have opened and invited you to install. In that event, when you doubleclicked the. If it were installed, it would have a checkbox filled with a colour, or a checkmark (tick) in the box. If so, it is not installed, but may be upgradeable. The check box to its left may be empty or contain an exclamation mark. In your Synaptic Package Manager, if you search for "gdebi" you will find one or more references. That is why you are going around in circles trying to install 5.2. deb file, and then that action oped your Archive Manager (possibly Engrampa, I am not in that Distro at the moment) which invited you to extract? HOWEVER, given you are a GUI man, I am guessing you double-clicked the downloaded. I see the compressed download, but uncompressing it just leads me into a seeming infinite process of opening folders and looking for something that resembles an installer file. I downloaded Virtualbox 5.2 hoping maybe that might - I don't know - overwrite that bugger, but I don't understand how to install programs on Linux. Anyway, Synaptic Package Manager can't fix it, and I've tried several commands to purge everything with a Virtualbox label, but that one file keeps hanging on. It gives me a message that is cut-off and the only thing I can view of it, tells me to get rid of any "third-party repositories" - but I don't know what a repository in Linux even is. It tells me that I have one broken dependency, and to fix that first (virtualbox-ext-pack version 5.1.30-2). I've looked online for suggestions, but I can't get past uninstalling the program. I had version 5.1, and it worked pretty well until it stopped launching one day. Therefore, for me to understand any helpful suggestions, it will have to be in the smallest baby-steps with no assumption that I know even the simple things like "run it from the root". I mention that because up until now, I have been exclusively a GUI guy. I'm brand new to this forum, and very new to Linux itself.
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