just so you know I'm pretty new at Linux.
I just made the jump from Ubuntu 19.10 to Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS because I thought there wouldn't be a problem with VirtualBox. When the upgrade was finished I noticed VirtualBox was gone, I tried to install it following the instruction on the official website and other sites.
I don't know what you guys exactly need to help me solve the problem so here's some informations :
Here's what appears when I do sudo apt update :
Hit:1 focal InRelease Get:2 focal-updates InRelease [114 kB] Get:3 focal-security InRelease [109 kB] Hit:4 focal InRelease Get:5 focal-security/main i386 Packages [169 kB] Get:6 focal-security/main amd64 Packages [412 kB] Get:7 focal-security/main Translation-en [93,5 kB] Get:8 focal-updates/main amd64 Packages [724 kB] Get:9 focal-updates/main i386 Packages [399 kB] Get:10 focal-updates/main Translation-en [180 kB] Get:11 focal-updates/main amd64 c-n-f Metadata [11,4 kB] Get:12 focal-updates/restricted i386 Packages [13,4 kB] Get:13 focal-updates/restricted amd64 Packages [110 kB] Get:14 focal-updates/restricted Translation-en [16,5 kB] Fetched 2 352 kB in 1s (2 345 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done 10 packages can be upgraded. Run 'apt list --upgradable' to see them. Now sudo apt install virtualbox virtualbox-ext-pack :
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package virtualbox is a virtual package provided by: virtualbox-6.1 6.1.16-140961~Ubuntu~eoan virtualbox-6.0 6.0.24-139119~Ubuntu~eoan You should explicitly select one to install. Package virtualbox-ext-pack is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source E: Package 'virtualbox' has no installation candidate E: Package 'virtualbox-ext-pack' has no installation candidate Or when I do sudo apt install virtualbox-6.0 :
Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages have not yet been created or been moved out of Incoming. The following information may help to resolve the situation: The following packages have unmet dependencies: virtualbox-6.0 : Depends: libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not installable Depends: python (< 2.8) but it is not installable Depends: python (>= 2.7) but it is not installable Depends: python:any (>= 2.6.6-7~) Recommends: libsdl-ttf2.0-0 but it is not installable Recommends: gcc but it is not going to be installed Recommends: make but it is not going to be installed or build-essential but it is not going to be installed or dpkg-dev but it is not going to be installed Recommends: binutils but it is not going to be installed E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. I did
$ wget -q -O- | sudo apt-key add - $ wget -q -O- | sudo apt-key add - and
echo "deb [arch=amd64] $(lsb_release -cs) contrib" | \ sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list without any problems.
I hope everyone is having a good day :)
3 Answers
#Just Download a debian file:
And install with :
sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-6.1_6.1.16-140961~Ubuntu~eoan_amd64.deb #If get's Any error
sudo apt install -f Just add a repository to your system to download the package virtualbox needs:
deb buster main contrib non-free And then reinstall with the command:
sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1 It worked with me.
I solved it in the following way
sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo add-apt-repository multiverse sudo add-apt-repository "deb bionic contrib" sudo apt-get update If when doing apt-get update it appears:
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-i386/Packages' as repository ' bionic InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
then:
echo "deb [arch=amd64] $(lsb_release -sc) contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list continue:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade -y sudo apt-get install libpng16-16 libqt5core5a libqt5printsupport5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5x11extras5 sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.0 -y 
