Re: Vertualbox installation errors
On Thu, 15 May 2014 08:43:01 -0700
Gary Roach <gary719_list1@verizon.net> wrote:
> Note: I am running an Intel i5-750 processor and Wheezy with uname -a
> giving: Linux supercrunch 3.2.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.2.57-3+deb7u1
> x86_64 GNU/Linux
> .
> .
> .
> Processing triggers for menu ...
>
> Setting up libgsoap2 (2.8.7-2) ...
>
> Setting up virtualbox (4.1.18-dfsg-2+deb7u3) ...
> [ ok ] Stopping VirtualBox kernel modules.
> [....] Starting VirtualBox kernel modules[....] No suitable module
> for running kernel found [FA failed!
> failed!
>
> I'm obviously using the standard Debian packaging system for
> installation and the recommended additional installation packages are
> being installed, but the headers that are being installed are for a
> 32 bit processor while I have a 64 bit installation. Could that be
> the problem. So what am I doing wrong.
>
> Gary R.
>
>
What does
$ dpkg --print-architecture
$ dpkg --print-foreign-architecture
say ?
I suspect that you are on multiarch and your default architecture is
i386, but you kernel is amd64.
In that case try if:
$ apt-get install virtualbox:amd64
works.
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