AH HA! @petr-sedlacek I thought the problem was: the oracle provided version of virtualbox depends on libcurl3, and the canonical provided version is 5.0 doesn't have 64-bit support (or at least, it doesn't work yet).
Whelll.... Turns out I was downloading the wrong version from Oracle. There is a "xenial" version of 5.2_5.2.22-126460, and a "bionic" version. That's right, two different versions of the same version. EXCELLENT! Install the copy of virtualbox for bionic and all is right with the world. I apologize for my annoyance :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1754294 Title: After last updated libcurl3 on libcurl4, some apps are removed. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/1754294/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs