Hi everyone,
I'm brand new to this forum, and very new to Linux itself. I mention that because up until now, I have been exclusively a GUI guy. I mean really exclusively. Therefore, for me to understand any helpful suggestions, it will have to be in the smallest baby-steps with no assumption that I know even the simple things like "run it from the root".
My problem is with fixing VirtualBox. I had version 5.1, and it worked pretty well until it stopped launching one day. I've looked online for suggestions, but I can't get past uninstalling the program. It tells me that I have one broken dependency, and to fix that first (virtualbox-ext-pack version 5.1.30-2). It gives me a message that is cut-off and the only thing I can view of it, tells me to get rid of any "third-party repositories" - but I don't know what a repository in Linux even is. Anyway, Synaptic Package Manager can't fix it, and I've tried several commands to purge everything with a Virtualbox label, but that one file keeps hanging on.
I downloaded Virtualbox 5.2 hoping maybe that might - I don't know - overwrite that bugger, but I don't understand how to install programs on Linux. I see the compressed download, but uncompressing it just leads me into a seeming infinite process of opening folders and looking for something that resembles an installer file. Basically, I get nowhere.
Any help would be appreciated : )
Thank you,
Hans
I'm brand new to this forum, and very new to Linux itself. I mention that because up until now, I have been exclusively a GUI guy. I mean really exclusively. Therefore, for me to understand any helpful suggestions, it will have to be in the smallest baby-steps with no assumption that I know even the simple things like "run it from the root".
My problem is with fixing VirtualBox. I had version 5.1, and it worked pretty well until it stopped launching one day. I've looked online for suggestions, but I can't get past uninstalling the program. It tells me that I have one broken dependency, and to fix that first (virtualbox-ext-pack version 5.1.30-2). It gives me a message that is cut-off and the only thing I can view of it, tells me to get rid of any "third-party repositories" - but I don't know what a repository in Linux even is. Anyway, Synaptic Package Manager can't fix it, and I've tried several commands to purge everything with a Virtualbox label, but that one file keeps hanging on.
I downloaded Virtualbox 5.2 hoping maybe that might - I don't know - overwrite that bugger, but I don't understand how to install programs on Linux. I see the compressed download, but uncompressing it just leads me into a seeming infinite process of opening folders and looking for something that resembles an installer file. Basically, I get nowhere.
Any help would be appreciated : )
Thank you,
Hans