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Seeing that there was a new VirtualBox release, I tried to install it on Kubuntu 15.04...

However, now all of my VBox 4.3 packages in the ubuntu repositories are broken (Virtualbox is provided by Virtualbox-5.0 which is not installed), and VirtualBox 5.0 won't work as it says DKMS is broken:

Uninstalling old VirtualBox DKMS kernel modules/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: 302: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv: /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost/do_dkms: not found
 ...done.
Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS/etc/init.d/vboxdrv: 327: /etc/init.d/vboxdrv: /usr/share/virtualbox/src/vboxhost/do_dkms: not found
 ...failed!
  (Failed, trying without DKMS)

Reinstalling virtualbox-dkms: 

dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-dkms (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-qt:
 virtualbox-qt depends on virtualbox (= 4.3.26-dfsg-2ubuntu2); however:
  Package virtualbox is not configured yet.
  Package virtualbox-5.0 which provides virtualbox is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-qt (--configure):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
No apport report written because the error message indicates it's a follow-up error from a previous failure.

Even though VirtualBox 5.0 was installed via deb package from the Oracle website.

What can I do to either completely remove 5.0 and install VirtualBox 4.3, or correctly install virtualbox 5.0?

I've already tried uninstalling VirtualBox 5.0 (via apt-get purge), then installing 4.3, but get the error relating to VirtualBox being provided by the package virtualbox-5.0.

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You have to completely remove older VirtualBox versions before installing VirtualBox-5.0 !

Uninstall VirtualBox -> sudo apt-get purge "^virtualbox-.*"

Check carefully what will be removed before you confirm.

Update the software repositories -> sudo apt-get update

Clean up -> sudo apt-get autoremove && sudo apt-get autoclean && sudo apt-get clean

Download and register the ORACLE public key -> 

wget -q -O - https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc | sudo apt-key add -

Add the VirtualBox repository to the sources ->

echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian vivid contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-vbox.list

Update software repositories again -> sudo apt-get update

Install VirtualBox -> sudo apt-get install dkms virtualbox-5.0

Note for other users reading this answer, in case they use another Ubuntu edition as 15.04 :

You have to replace vivid with the Ubuntu edition you are using when adding the repository !

As of Ubuntu 16.04 the ORACLE public key to download and register has changed :

oracle_vbox.asc has to be replaced with oracle_vbox_2016.asc !

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Be careful with the * and apt-get: this command accepts a regular expression, not a glob-pattern!. Your command should be apt-get purge "^virtualbox-.*". In this case is probably the same, but it will bite you... see askubuntu.com/questions/210976/… – Rmano Aug 26 '15 at 14:14
    
@Rmano - thanks for your comment. I checked the sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-* command. Result was virtualbox only and suggestion to autoremove libsdl-ttf afterwards, which was installed as a dependency together with virtualbox. Main reason to take this specific command was to be sure that nothing of the former virtualbox installation would remain. Anyway I take your warning seriously, so I added "Check carefully what will be removed before you confirm" to my answer. – cl-netbox Aug 26 '15 at 15:16
    
@Rmano was correct... Using a regex worked for me where * did not, it initially said it couldn't find the virtualbox-5.0.2... package. – BnMcG Aug 26 '15 at 16:56
    
@BnMcG --- that was probably because you issued the command from the directory where you had the virtualbox-5.0.2... .deb package. Without the quotes, shell expansion took precedence, and the * was substituted before apt-get had a chance to see it. – Rmano Aug 26 '15 at 17:24
    
Here is the link to the official manual describing proposed approach for all debian-based distributions: virtualbox.org/wiki/… – Alex Paliarush Nov 14 '15 at 22:42
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My Virtualbox does not work. It starts but could not execute any of the machines. The solution I found was:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms

and then:

sudo modprobe vboxdrv
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