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On a fresh install (not an upgrade from 17.04) I am not able to install /run virtualbox. I get the following error message when I run virtualbox:

tim@africantiger:~/Downloads$ virtualbox
VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlopen("/usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox.so",) failed: libQt5Core.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I tried satisfying all the libQt5* dependencies but eventually I get stuck on the following:

tim@africantiger:/usr/lib/virtualbox$ virtualbox 
Qt FATAL: This application failed to start because it could not find or load the Qt platform plugin "xcb"
in "".

Not sure how to proceed -- help!

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  • How did you install virtualbox ? – Panther Nov 20 '17 at 00:52
  • I downloaded virtualbox-5.2_5.2.0-118431_Ubuntu_zesty_amd64.deb from virtualbox.org (there is no version for artful aardvark) and then did sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-5.2_5.2.0-118431_Ubuntu_zesty_amd64.deb – CAA Nov 20 '17 at 01:24
  • Did you run sudo apt -f install ? – Panther Nov 20 '17 at 01:28
  • yes i did (for no good reason except that i know if fixes broken installs). – CAA Nov 20 '17 at 01:29
  • You will probably have to install from the ubuntu repositores (remove what you installed first) and wait for 5.2 to be packaged. https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=virtualbox – Panther Nov 20 '17 at 01:37
  • I also installed from the ubuntu repositories but that also did not work. – CAA Nov 21 '17 at 00:06
  • If the ubuntu repository does not work, file a bug report. We would need more information from you than a statement that it did not work. What did you do and what error message did yo get. – Panther Nov 21 '17 at 01:38
  • I did the following: – CAA Nov 21 '17 at 02:34
  • I did the following: 1) sudo apt remove virtualbox virtualbox-5.2 2)rm -rf /usr/lib/virtualbox 3) Using Ubuntu Software installed virtualbox 4) when I run virtualbox I get VirtualBox: supR3HardenedVerifyFileInternal: Failed to open "/usr/lib/virtualbox/VMMR0.r0": No such file or directory (2) – CAA Nov 21 '17 at 03:57
  • According to https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=39951 , you will have to file a bug report with Ubuntu. – Panther Nov 21 '17 at 06:04

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I had a very similar problem. This is my question and answer, but what I did to fix the problem when I got to the xcb error was:

  1. based on the output of ldd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libQt5XcbQpa.so:
  2. sudo apt install libxcb-xinerama0*
  3. sudo apt install --reinstall libxcb-xinerama0*
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