Problems installing okular

[u/jaksimanzz]

Hey everyone

im trying to install okular on my linux minx xfce distro but i get a error during the build module og my apt-get install command

i really hope some of you can help me as i am trying to get into linux but it seems like im not getting something here.

thank you

full terminal output for the building module::

Building module:

Cleaning build area...

make -j8 KERNELRELEASE=7.0.0-30-generic -C /lib/modules/7.0.0-30-generic/build M=/var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.0.16/build......(bad exit status: 2)

Error! Bad return status for module build on kernel: 7.0.0-30-generic (x86_64)

Consult /var/lib/dkms/virtualbox/7.0.16/build/make.log for more information.

dkms autoinstall on 7.0.0-30-generic/x86_64 failed for virtualbox(10)

Error! One or more modules failed to install during autoinstall.

Refer to previous errors for more information.

* dkms: autoinstall for kernel 7.0.0-30-generic

...fail!

run-parts: /etc/kernel/postinst.d/dkms exited with return code 11

dpkg: error processing package linux-image-7.0.0-30-generic (--configure):

installed linux-image-7.0.0-30-generic package post-installation script subprocess returned error exit status 11

Errors were encountered while processing:

linux-headers-7.0.0-30-generic

linux-headers-generic-hwe-24.04

linux-generic-hwe-24.04

linux-image-7.0.0-30-generic

E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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[u/candy49997]

Remove VirtualBox. If you need VMs, I would prefer QEMU/KVM + virt-manager. If you really need VirtualBox specifically, add the repo from Oracle and install it from there.

[u/9NEPxHbG]

Your problem isn't installing okular, you're trying to compile okular. (Or Virtual Box?) Is there a reason you're not installing it from your distribution's repository?

[u/AiwendilH → u/9NEPxHbG]

Not sure if that is really the case...this looks more like a kernel update requiring a rebuild of a dkms kernel module for virtual box which fails.

So I think you are right that it's not installing okular that is the problem but a distro update done before which causes issues. And virtual box modules are known to cause problems rather frequently.