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I am unable to install Virtualbox5.1 from oracle ppa; with the following error

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 virtualbox-5.1 : Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.6.0~beta) but 5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.2 is to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.6.0~beta) but 5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7.2 is to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5x11extras5 (>= 5.6.0) but 5.5.1-3build1 is to be installed
                  Recommends: libsdl-ttf2.0-0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
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    Run sudo apt install -f. – Pilot6 Mar 29 '17 at 15:24
  • Seems like its been answered here. http://askubuntu.com/questions/898054/virtualbox-not-working-when-installing/898058#898058 – saviour123 Mar 29 '17 at 15:24
  • @Pilot6 I do not want to force the update – Sarvex Mar 29 '17 at 15:33
  • @saviour123 the question pointed is regarding the default virtualbox i.e. 5.0 whereas I am facing problems with oracle PPA providing 5.1 – Sarvex Mar 29 '17 at 15:33
  • -f is not "force", it is "fix". It should install the needed dependencies. – Pilot6 Mar 29 '17 at 15:46
  • fixed the cache with sudo apt install -f still the same error persists, interestingly ubuntu based virtualbox 5.0 installs perfectly fine – Sarvex Mar 29 '17 at 15:48
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    I am using VB 5.1 with no problems. I installed a deb file and the PPA has been added automatically. – Pilot6 Mar 29 '17 at 15:52
  • You might try upgrading from 16.04 to 16.04.02, or 16.10, and then retrying the Virtualbox 5.1 install. libsdl-ttf2.0-0 should probably come with the newer OS's. – heynnema Mar 29 '17 at 18:28

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This worked for me:

1. sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-6.0_6.0.4-128413_Ubuntu_xenial_amd64.deb

2. then it shows Package libvpx3 is not installed..

3. sudo apt-get update.

4. sudo apt-get install libvpx3.

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These are all dependencies for most recent VirtualBox 5.1.18 installed from the Oracle repository for Ubuntu 16.04.2 LTS:

Dependencies:
5.1.18-114002~Ubuntu~xenial - debconf (18 1.1) debconf-2.0 (0 (null)) libc6 (2 2.15) libcurl3 (2 7.16.2) libdevmapper1.02.1 (2 2:1.02.97) libgcc1 (2 1:3.0) libgl1-mesa-glx (16 (null)) libgl1 (0 (null)) libpng12-0 (2 1.2.13-4) libpython2.7 (2 2.7) libqt5core5a (2 5.5.0) libqt5gui5 (18 5.3.0) libqt5gui5-gles (2 5.3.0) libqt5opengl5 (18 5.0.2) libqt5opengl5-gles (2 5.0.2) libqt5printsupport5 (2 5.0.2) libqt5widgets5 (2 5.2.0) libqt5x11extras5 (2 5.1.0) libsdl1.2debian (2 1.2.11) libssl1.0.0 (2 1.0.0) libstdc++6 (2 5.2) libvpx3 (2 1.5.0) libx11-6 (0 (null)) libxcb1 (0 (null)) libxcursor1 (4 1.1.2) libxext6 (0 (null)) libxinerama1 (0 (null)) libxml2 (2 2.7.4) libxmu6 (0 (null)) libxt6 (0 (null)) zlib1g (2 1:1.1.4) psmisc (0 (null)) adduser (0 (null)) virtualbox (0 (null)) virtualbox:i386 (0 (null)) virtualbox-guest-additions-iso (0 (null)) virtualbox-guest-additions-iso:i386 (0 (null)) virtualbox-ose (0 (null)) libasound2 (0 (null)) libpulse0 (0 (null)) libsdl-ttf2.0-0 (0 (null)) kmod (16 (null)) kldutils (16 (null)) module-init-tools (0 (null)) linux-headers-generic (16 (null)) linux-headers-generic-pae (16 (null)) linux-headers-686-pae (16 (null)) linux-headers-amd64 (16 (null)) linux-headers-2.6-686 (16 (null)) linux-headers-2.6-amd64 (16 (null)) linux-headers (0 (null)) linux-image (0 (null)) gcc (0 (null)) make (16 (null)) build-essential (16 (null)) dpkg-dev (0 (null)) binutils (0 (null)) pdf-viewer (0 (null)) libgl1 (0 (null)) virtualbox (0 (null)) virtualbox:i386 (0 (null)) virtualbox-5.1:i386 (32 (null)) 
Provides: 
5.1.18-114002~Ubuntu~xenial - virtualbox (= )

From that we can see that all dependent packages are available through the default installation. No need to install any future package release.

You may have accidentally downloaded or installed a Virtual Box version built for Ubuntu 16.10 or another distribution. Please see this answer on how to add the Oracle repository to your sources and make sure you use the appropriate Ubuntu release for the sources line:

lsb_release -sc
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