Hi, LocutusOfBorg, how are you? Regarding your question I downloaded the .deb file directly from Oracle's VirtualBox webpage at https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.40/
I originally installed the deb package for Ubuntu 14.04 (https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.40/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.40-115130~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb) when I installed Linux Mint Xfce 17 64-bit (some two years when I migrated from Linux Mint Xfce 13) and suceeded in using virtual machines I developed for my own needs (a Windows XP SP3 32-bit, a Windows 7.1 32-bit, a Windows 8 64-bit and a FreeBSD x86-64) as the version available from the Mint repositories failed to launch any of these VM's. When I moved from Linux Mint 17 to Linux Mint 18.1 Xfce 64-bit (again a fresh installation from scratch) the VirtualBox version available from the repositories failed (again) to launch any of my VM's and so proceeded to install the Ubuntu 16.4 available from Oracle (https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.0.40/virtualbox-5.0_5.0.40-115130~Ubuntu~xenial_amd64.deb) and again was able to run my VM's flawlessly. So you see Locutus, I can't update my rig to the latest VirtualBox version, either the one from Mint's repositories or the one from Oracle's website. By the way, the Mint Update Manager was updated yesterday to version 5.2.1.2 and this update automatically triggered the removal of the virtualbox-guest-utils package, but my VM's are still running alright after I rebooted my rig afterwards (and on Linux Mint 17.x and 18.x this package is installed automatically when the OS is installed and were loaded at boot time regardless of VirtualBox being or not installed on that particular system). Hope this info was helpful. Have a nice day. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1758946 Title: virtualbox-guest-utils update caused Synaptic to stop working To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox/+bug/1758946/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
