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KonradDos
Asked: 2017-03-11 08:34:48 +0800 CST

Virtualbox 15.1.14

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I have downloaded dpkg file of virtualbox 15.1.4 on my hard drive. The problem is I can not start the program. I used dpkg -i /directory command to install the file but something is going wrong and the program is crashing. I got this error in terminal: 

WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (4.4.0-64-generic) or it failed to
         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

           sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
VirtualBox: Error -10 in SUPR3HardenedMain!
VirtualBox: Effective UID is not root (euid=1000 egid=1000 uid=1000 gid=1000)

VirtualBox: Tip! It may help to reinstall VirtualBox.

How to install missing files?

virtualbox

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Here is the fastest way to add the official Oracle repository for Virtual Box to the Ubuntu software sources, download the signing key, and install Virtual Box:

    sudo apt-add-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -cs) contrib"
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install dkms virtualbox-5.1

    In case there was a release newer than 5.1. we may have to remove this version prior to installing a later version.

    By doing so we make sure that all dependencies are met, and the software will be updated with most recent bugfixes (at the time of writing we're already at version 5.1.16).

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