Hello, I pushed vbox 5.1.34 to Ubuntu xenial, can't you just ask mint people to upgrade or use it directly? it should be installable in your mint version.
the guest might have been autoremoved because of new hwe upgrade, maybe you can install virtualbox-guest-utils-hwe on your system? https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/virtualbox-hwe -- 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