error in VirtualBox Installer for Linux

I installed kicksecure on my computer and now I want to install here only virtualbox, for this I do these steps from the page :

  1. curl --tlsv1.3 --output virtualbox-installer --url https://www.kicksecure.com/dist-installer-cli
  2. bash ./virtualbox-installer
    and I get the following errors
   
virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: Invalid script name: 'virtualbox-installer'
virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: If you don't know why this happened, rename this script to
virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]:   dist-installer-cli and use command-line options instead.
virtualbox-installer: [NOTICE]: Executed script, function, command executed: './virtualbox-installer' 'run_installer' 'return 2'
virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: Installer aborted due to an error.
virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: No need to panic. Nothing is broken. Just some rare condition has been hit.
virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: A solution likely exists for this issue.
virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: If the issue does not recur on retry, it can be safely ignored as transient.
virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: Consult  News and the User Help Forum for assistance.
virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: Please report this bug if it has not been already.

virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: An error occurred at line: '4762'
 4758	  not_as_root
 4759	  ## Set trap for common signals.
 4760	  set_trap
 4761	  ## Parse script name for wanted values.
* 4762	  parse_name
 4763	  ## If account 'sysmaint' is in use and the user hasn't configured their own directory
 4764	  ## prefix and target user, default to target account 'user'.
 4765	  adjust_default_for_sysmaint_maybe
 4766	  ## Parse command-line options.

virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: Please include the user log and the debug log in your bug report.
virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: (For file locations where to find these logs, see above.)

virtualbox-installer: [ERROR]: Installer exited with code: '2'
zsh: exit 2     bash ./virtualbox-installer

I tried renaming the file to dist-installer-cli and then it works, but then it starts downloading whonix and I don’t want that.


I have 1 more question, earlier in the wiki i read information about sysrq and the key combination alt + printscreen + o for emergency system shutdown. i enabled this on my system and it works, but i couldn’t find any more information in the wiki.

Use ./dist-installer-cli --virtualbox-only to install just VirtualBox. If you want to see all the command-line options the installer supports, use ./dist-installer-cli --help.

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That was a bug in the wiki. The actual filename is virtualbox-installer-cli nowadays. Documentation has been fixed just now.

there’s no mention of alt+printscreen+o

1 issue = 1 forum thread please.