I'm sorry Joe, I have no idea what you just said. I only know the basics of GNU/Linux.
The
reason I went with that
tecmint.com's method is because if I download
directly from virtualbox's website ( which I think is a deb file?) and I
execute the dpkg -i command, I get dependency issues. But the
virtualbox seems to have installed despite the dependency issues. I did
not try to use that virtualbox and instead I removed it from my system
and tried
tecmint.com's method, which installed an older version.