On Saturday 23 July 2016 14:02:55 Hans wrote: > 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
It sounds to me as though this may be at least part of the problem. What is your sources.list? Lisi
