Re: Aptitude Error
On Saturday 23 July 2016 14:02:55 Hans wrote:
> 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
It sounds to me as though this may be at least part of the problem. What is
your sources.list?
Lisi
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