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Steve
Asked: 2020-02-26 05:43:12 +0800 CST

Does apt install --reinstall delete config files?

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I want to reinstall Oracle VirtualBox as it isn't working (The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module available for the current kernel (5.3.0-7629-generic) or it failed to load. Please recompile the kernel module by and install it by sudo /sbin/vboxconfig)

What I'm worried about is that whether my current virtual machine gets deleted after using sudo apt install --reinstall virtualbox.

I tried manually upgrading it from its current version 5.2 to 6.1 with dpkg -i but it says that the new version conflicts with the new one. So how can I safely reinstall VirtualBox so that I will still be able to my current VM?

PS. I think the problem with VirtualBox started after upgrading to the new kernel.

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1 Answers

  1. Your problem : virtualbox was installed once and the settings in your machine might be saved somewhere . Remove it completely with .

    Uninstall virtualbox first:

    sudo apt-get remove --purge virtualbox

    install it again. Run this command:

    sudo apt-get install virtualbox

    This also help to fix broken packages, so if these commands above failed tried to fix packages first and then remove and install the virtualbox:

    sudo apt-get -f install
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