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I have downloaded Virtualbox from the official repository. However, I can't manage to install it on Ubuntu 19.10:

> lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 19.10
Release:    19.10
Codename:   eoan

It says that my configuration does not have some dependencies:

dpkg -i virtualbox-6.0_6.0.14-133895~Ubuntu~bionic_amd64.deb 
Selecting previously unselected package virtualbox-6.0.
(Reading database ... 183239 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack virtualbox-6.0_6.0.14-133895~Ubuntu~bionic_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking virtualbox-6.0 (6.0.14-133895~Ubuntu~bionic) ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of virtualbox-6.0:
 virtualbox-6.0 depends on libqt5opengl5 (>= 5.0.2); however:
  Package libqt5opengl5 is not installed.
 virtualbox-6.0 depends on libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.0.2); however:
  Package libqt5printsupport5 is not installed.
 virtualbox-6.0 depends on libqt5x11extras5 (>= 5.6.0); however:
  Package libqt5x11extras5 is not installed.
 virtualbox-6.0 depends on libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11); however:
  Package libsdl1.2debian is not installed.
 virtualbox-6.0 depends on libvpx5 (>= 1.6.0); however:
  Package libvpx5 is not installed.

dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-6.0 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for systemd (242-7ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.32.0-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.24-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.63ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.17-2) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.10-1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-6.0

Running sudo apt-get install -f won't install the dependencies, but will remove the uncomplete installation of Virtualbox. Am I missing something?

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  • You mention from the official repositories, on 19.10 that's packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/virtualbox but your package is listed as being a Bionic (18.04) package; ie. it's unofficial for eoan. Use the official 'eoan' package
    – guiverc
    Oct 23, 2019 at 7:00
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    A sudo apt install virtualbox will work; your issue is trying to install an unofficial (official for 18.04 but you're not running 18.04 thus it's unofficial) package.
    – guiverc
    Oct 23, 2019 at 7:03
  • I downloaded it yesterday directly from the website...I'm running 19.10 oracle.com/virtualization/virtualbox
    – Firefox264
    Oct 24, 2019 at 12:47
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    I upgraded to 19.10 yesterday, and now Virtualbox won't start my VM, saying Kernel driver not installed (rc=-1908) and suggests running '/sbin/vboxconfig' as root. This also fails, compiling kernel modules ends with this log entry: /tmp/vbox.0/r0drv/linux/mp-r0drv-linux.c:287:18: error: void value not ignored as it ought to be 287 | int rc = smp_call_function(rtmpLinuxAllWrapper, &Args, 0 /* wait */); What to do?
    – Enno
    Oct 25, 2019 at 6:41
  • If you look on the downloads page you posted the link to. There isn't a download option for Ubuntu 19.10 so I take it from that that VirtualBox 6.0.14 for Linux doesn't yet support 19.10 the only download links are listed on that page are: Ubuntu 18.04 / 18.10 / 19.04 ?
    – user993560
    Nov 29, 2019 at 21:51

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To install the official package and testing VirtualBox for your release, you need only

sudo apt install virtualbox

That will cause https://packages.ubuntu.com/eoan/virtualbox to be installed (note: it's found in 'multiverse' so that repository must be enabled; https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Repositories/Ubuntu)

You are trying to install a virtualbox packaged for bionic (18.04) which is unofficial for Ubuntu 19.10 (eoan). It needs to be removed (if installed) and the official 6.0.14 package installed from official repositories (for eoan).

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    I'm using virtualbox on my 19.10 system, and using the default version; apt-cache policy shows 6.0.14-dfsg-1 from eoan/multiverse ; and use it regularly without issue (I've done 30+ 19.10 QA-tests using it over last couple of months)
    – guiverc
    Oct 23, 2019 at 7:26
  • Yes that is the same version (6.0.14) available for download from Oracle and the apt version maybe even has some extra bug fixes. I agree, there is no need to use the downloaded file when apt provides the same version.
    – mchid
    Oct 23, 2019 at 7:31
  • This doesn't work for me. It seems to install fine, but in reality the kernel modules don't load. sudo modprobe vboxdrv gives "modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'vboxdrv': Exec format error". I have the 4.15.0-1059-oem kernel on Kubuntu (if that matters)
    – larsivi
    Nov 19, 2019 at 18:43
  • The version from apt is typically crippled, that's why one has to go to virtualbox.org to download it and the "extension pack." Has that finally changed?
    – Gringo Suave
    Dec 6, 2019 at 21:10
  • I only ever use the standard Ubuntu packages and don't have problems. Maybe it helps that I'm usually running the latest release (and/or development) thus get no benefit going outside Ubuntu packages (only aware of complications with non-Ubuntu sourced packages when I next release-upgrade which is every six months).
    – guiverc
    Dec 6, 2019 at 22:09
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nano /etc/apt/sources.list

write inside:

deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco main

save with these shortcuts: Ctrl+O and Ctrl+X

next:

apt-get update
apt-get install libvpx5
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    It is a pretty bad idea to mix distro versions like this. Never do this. Next system upgrade is bound to bring some terrible surprises.
    – Marek Rost
    Jul 18, 2020 at 8:59
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As guiverc mention, you can do it in more simple way, just sudo apt install virtualbox

But for example, in my case, I had a vagrant, which specifically ask for `virtualbox-5.2'

Same you can do it like this: sudo apt install virtualbox-5.2, but for some cases it did not helped me. So I tried Josue Badbeat solution and it helped. Just add in source.list -> deb http://cz.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu disco main and then 

apt-get update
apt-get install libvpx5
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I had the same question. I tried installing libvpx5 but that didn't work.

sudo apt install virtualbox

worked just fine

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If none above solved your problem, do this

There is a bug with gcc (reference)

sudo ln -fs gcc-8 /usr/bin/gcc

then download the latest version of the virtual box from this link or use type:

wget -q https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.0/virtualbox-6.1_6.1.0-135406~Ubuntu~eoan_amd64.deb

then, in the command shell, go to the directory where you downlaoded the vritualbox, and run:

sudo dpkg --install virtualbox-6.1_6.1.0-135406_Ubuntu_eoan_amd64.deb

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I just installed Virtualbox-6.1 using the Bionic App repository. I did have to install libvpx5 using 

dpkg -i from https://ubuntu.pkgs.org/19.04/ubuntu-main-amd64/libvpx5_1.7.0-3_amd64.deb.html

but it seems to work fine. Hopefully Oracle will add Eoan soon.

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