Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2016, 08:38:02 schrieb S. P. Molnar: > I am running v-8.4 and get the following error: > > E: The package virtualbox-5.1 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find > an archive for it. > > This resulted from my bumbling effort to remove virtualbox. > > What is the solution to this problem? > > Thanks in advance.
Try: aptitude update then aptitude reinstall virtualbox If aptitude update fails, you can move /var/lib/apt/lists/* away and try again. You can also use aptitude's nice ncurses gui, and search for virtualbox. Also synaptics is fine packagemanager, with search options. If aptitude fails, try apt-get update, then apt-get --reinstall install virtualbox. Make sure, you have the correct entry for the repo in sources.list. Good luck! Hans
