Re: Aptitude Error

[Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de>]

Am Samstag, 23. Juli 2016, 08:38:02 schrieb S. P. Molnar:
> I am running v-8.4 and get the following error:
> 
> E: The package virtualbox-5.1 needs to be reinstalled, but I can't find
> an archive for it.
> 
> This resulted from my bumbling effort to remove virtualbox.
> 
> What is the solution to this problem?
> 
> Thanks in advance.

Try: 

aptitude update

then

aptitude reinstall virtualbox 

If aptitude update fails, you can move /var/lib/apt/lists/* away and try 
again.

You can also use aptitude's nice ncurses gui, and search for virtualbox. 
Also synaptics is fine packagemanager, with search options.

If aptitude fails, try apt-get update, then apt-get --reinstall install 
virtualbox.

Make sure, you have the correct entry for the repo in sources.list.

Good luck!

Hans