Note the packaging from Oracle's site is rather different (and probably incompatible), as everything is included in one package. You are probably better of purging all virtualbox-* packages before moving from one to the other.

dpkg --purge virtualbox virtualbox-dkms virtualbox-qt

(and any others I didn't include)


On 6 November 2014 15:22, Bob <forums@wtaustralia.com> wrote:

bob@Comp-NC:~$ sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms

/usr/sbin/dpkg-reconfigure: virtualbox-dkms is broken or not fully installed

Wrong command. Assuming you want to install the version with your OS (distributed as separate packages), You wanted:

dpkg --configure  virtualbox-dkms

dpkg-reconfigure is intended to re-ask debconf questions, not to fix broken packages.

Or better yet:

dpkg --configure --pending

Will try to automatically configure all pending packages.
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