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I recently downloaded Virtualbox. These are the steps I took:

  1. I first went to VirtualBox download and downloaded the right version for my computer and OS (Ubuntu 16.04 64bit).
  2. I opened up my terminal and went into the Downloads directory. I continued to type ls to open what was in my downloads file. The only thing in there was the Virtualbox file
  3. I copied the file link and before I pasted it I typed "sudo dpkg -i" and the copied the link after.

This finally got everything installed. Finally I opened up Virtualbox and I made my windows virtual machine correctly, and I tried to start it, but it came up with a Error in suplibOsInit. I read this and it says I need to reinstall the kernel module by executing /sbin/vboxconfig Could someone please tell me how to fix this problem.

After running the 'sudo apt list virtual* the output was: 

Listing... Done
virtualbox/xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 amd64
virtualbox-5.2/now 5.2.6-120293~Ubuntu~xenial amd64 [installed,local]
virtualbox-dbg/xenial-updates 5.0.18-dfsg-2ubuntu1 amd64
virtualbox-dkms/xenial-updates,xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 all
virtualbox-ext-pack/xenial-updates,xenial-updates 5.0.40-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 all
virtualbox-guest-additions-iso/xenial-updates,xenial-updates 5.0.40-0ubuntu1.16.04.1 all
virtualbox-guest-dkms/xenial-updates,xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 all
virtualbox-guest-dkms-hwe/xenial-updates,xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1~16.04.4 all
virtualbox-guest-source/xenial-updates,xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 all
virtualbox-guest-source-hwe/xenial-updates,xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1~16.04.4 all
virtualbox-guest-utils/xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 amd64
virtualbox-guest-utils-hwe/xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1~16.04.4 amd64
virtualbox-guest-x11/xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 amd64
virtualbox-guest-x11-hwe/xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.1~16.04.4 amd64
virtualbox-qt/xenial-updates,now 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 amd64 [residual-config]
virtualbox-source/xenial-updates,xenial-updates 5.0.40-dfsg-0ubuntu1.16.04.2 all
virtualbricks/xenial,xenial 1.0.2-1 all
virtualenv/xenial-updates,xenial-updates 15.0.1+ds-3ubuntu1 all
virtualenv-clone/xenial,xenial 0.2.5-1 all
virtualenvwrapper/xenial,xenial 4.3.1-2 all
virtualjaguar/xenial 2.1.2-2 amd64
Charles Green
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This is a pretty easy process:

Open a terminal window (press ctrl+alt+t)

Enter the command

sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

It takes a few minutes to finish

Enter the command exit to close the terminal window

Charles Green
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