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Attempting to launch VirtualBox in Ubuntu 16.04 produces an error about the vboxdrv module not being able to load, then another error about /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox not being found.

$ virtualbox
WARNING: The vboxdrv kernel module is not loaded. Either there is no module
         available for the current kernel (4.10.0-35-generic) or it failed to
         load. Please recompile the kernel module and install it by

           sudo /sbin/vboxconfig

         You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
/usr/bin/virtualbox: 111: exec: /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox: not found

To obtain VirtualBox, I downloaded the .deb file from the website and installed it from local using:

sudo dpkg -i virtualbox5.1_5.1.28-117968~Ubuntu~xenial_i386.deb
Russo
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nitin bakaya
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I've had exactly the same problem on ubuntu 17.04 amd64 with kernel 4.10.0-35-generic. FIxed with the following line:

apt --fix-broken install

apt installed then libqt5x11extras5. Hope this will help.

Ilshat Karazbayev
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From information originally provided in comments, it appears your system is a 64-bit system and you're using a 32-bit VirtualBox installer. Please re-download the 64-bit version for your Ubuntu system.

Eliah Kagan
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George Udosen
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