[Cialug] Hosed Virtualbox Install - Looking for suggestions

[jim kraai]

(In congenial voice) Given your wide, varied, and inexplicable experience
borking vm installs, have you considered a career with virtual machine
creators testing their products to (virtual) destruction?  :-D

Rock on, Chris!

On Nov 2, 2016 1:51 PM, "c" <cbpurcell at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think it was basically that I didn't reboot between uninstalling one
> version and installing another. Then it was partially broken, so I tried to
> uninstall the 5.1 install and reinstall the 5.0 and I got to a point where
> apt-get and aptitude would fail to uninstall either.
>
> Purcell
>
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2016 at 10:48 AM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 2 Nov 2016, c wrote:
> >
> > > I ended up taking the road of last resort and basically deleting every
> > > filewith 'vbox' and 'virtualbox' from the machine, rebooting, and
> > > theninstalling fresh. I was lucky even that worked.
> > >
> > Quite an interesting problem, .. do you have any sense of the precipating
> > cause? OS upgrade? VB upgrade?
> >
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