Thursday, 12 May 2016

Thumbdrive and Oracle VirtualBox

Safe Removal of Hdd/Thumbdrive

Safely remove Hdd/Thumbdrive on Linux Mint Debian Edition

Sometimes the eject option is not available to safely remove a external storage device, the way to do it manually is to issue the following command:
udisks --detach /dev/sd*


Installing Oracle VirtualBox


Resolving gpg-keyserver error updating VirtualBox

Advice: follow the instruction on https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads to update the repository list in your /etc/apt/sources.list

NB: An error likely to surface when updating Oracle VirtualBox on Debian-based distribution (including Ubuntu):  "Error! Could not locate dkms.conf file.
File: does not exist."


1) Simply delete the previous version folder in /var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/ for e.g. (/var/lib/dkms/vboxhost/5.X.XX)

2) issue the command "sudo /etc/init.d/vboxdrv setup" and the error is gone.


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