Trying to install virtualbox - unmet dependencies

Question

So I am trying to install virtualbox 6.0 on Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS and it seems to be having dependency problems.

I've confirmed the sources.list file contains

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bionic contrib

and I have used update multiple times with nothing showing up to be updated.

Also apt-get -f install did not help either. Here is what I get when i run sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.0:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 virtualbox-6.0 : Depends: libqt5x11extra5 (>= 5.6.0) but it is not installable
                  Recommends: libsdl-ttf2.0-0 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: pdf-viewer
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

And dpkg --get-selections | grep hold doesn't return anything.

Any ideas?

Odd, I have virtualbox 6 installed on ubuntu 18.04.1 and apt policy libqt5x11extra5 returns N: Unable to locate package libqt5x11extra5 — Organic Marble, Jan 30 '19 at 00:09
The line in my sources.list looks like this: deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bionic contrib I suggest adding the [arch=amd64] and trying again. — Organic Marble, Jan 30 '19 at 00:11
I just fixed it by adding deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic main universe to my sources.list file — sean, Jan 30 '19 at 00:13
Glad you got it sorted! Consider posting your solution as an answer to help the next person. — Organic Marble, Jan 30 '19 at 00:14
@sean So wasn’t your problem just a disabled Universe repository? — Melebius, Jan 30 '19 at 07:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 22 '19 at 20:05

1

got mine working by changing sources.list line

deb https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib

to

deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bionic contrib

answered Sep 22 '19 at 20:05

piouson

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 02 '22 at 01:28

I'm running Ubuntu and ran into this dependency problem. Only difference is I'm using xenial distrubution. So here's what fixed it. From this forum.

User scottgus1 stated the following "I'm going to guess that unless you have specifically pointed your repository for Virtualbox to official www.virtualbox.org Virtualbox via the command on https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads, then you're pulling a fork of Virtualbox, and an old fork at that. Forks may be modified from the official version and we don't know what modifications were made. We recommend official Virtualbox for Linux."

So I literally changed the command:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.1

to:

sudo apt-get install virtualbox

Worked instantly for me.

Trying to install virtualbox - unmet dependencies

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