Hey, everyone! I was attempting to upgrade to the newest edition of Virtual Box. I followed the instructions to the letter from Tec Mint. When I run the 'sudo apt-get update' command, I get some errors from my additions.

networkgeek@theether:~$ sudo apt-get update
Ign:1 http://packages.linuxmint.com tara InRelease
Hit:2 http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:3 http://packages.linuxmint.com tara Release
Hit:4 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Get:5 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-security InRelease [83.2 kB]
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates InRelease [88.7 kB]
Hit:8 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gns3/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Hit:9 http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozi...ity/ppa/ubuntu bionic InRelease
Ign:10 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian tara InRelease
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports InRelease [74.6 kB]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main i386 Packages [413 kB]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64 Packages [476 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64 Packages [706 kB]
Err:15 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian tara Release
404 Not Found [IP: 23.221.202.52 80]
Get:16 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe i386 Packages [698 kB]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian tara Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

Now, i didn't add those exact Virtual Box repositories. This is the result of running the 'inxi -r' command.

networkgeek@theether:~$ inxi -r
Repos: Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/gns3-ppa-bionic.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/gns3/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/gns3/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/official-package-repositories.list
deb http://packages.linuxmint.com tara main upstream import backport #id:linuxmint_main
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-backports main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ bionic-security main restricted universe multiverse
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/ bionic partner
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ubuntu-mozilla-security-ppa-bionic.list
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozi...ity/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/ubuntu-mozi...ity/ppa/ubuntu bionic main
Active apt sources in file: /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian tara contrib

Where am I going wrong, friends?

-TH

If you followed the instructions from here - https://tecadmin.net/install-oracle-...box-on-ubuntu/ - it didn't work because

was written specifically for Ubuntu. The lsb_release -cs section added "tara" for your version of Mint and that repo subsection doesn't exist.

The relevant software source .list file should read:

If you don't know how to replace what you've got with the line above, let us know.

In future posts, it would be best if you included all output and code within CODE tags (please see (see https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...g.php?b=36313;). That way, for example, the URLs won't be interpreted and shortened. Cheers.

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Hey, thanks for the help. That actually worked.

I apologize for the messy post. I wasn't sure if it automatically formatted the text correctly as I've seen in other places. I'll add the right tags next time. Thanks again for the help.

No problem, TheHybrid. Welcome to LQ by the way!

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