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In order to install VirtualBox (basically as it is described here) on my Ubuntu 18.04 machine, I run the following commands

echo "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bionic contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update

All of them run fine. But for 

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2

I got the error:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 virtualbox-5.2 : Depends: libqt5opengl5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not installable
                  Depends: libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not installable
                  Depends: libqt5x11extras5 (>= 5.6.0) but it is not installable
                  Depends: libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11) but it is not installable
                  Recommends: libsdl-ttf2.0-0 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

When I use the default Ubuntu repository, the installation returns the error which is exactly described here.

After the installation, I cannot start any VM (e.g. NAME) and I got the error 

WARNING: The character device /dev/vboxdrv does not exist.
     Please install the virtualbox-dkms package and the appropriate
     headers, most likely linux-headers-generic.

     You will not be able to start VMs until this problem is fixed.
Waiting for VM "NAME" to power on...
VBoxManage: error: The virtual machine 'NAME' has terminated unexpectedly during startup with exit code 1 (0x1)

Of course, virtualbox-dkms package is installed.

The model name (cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" | uniq) is Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-6500T CPU @ 2.50GHz and grep -E "svm|vmx" /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l returns 4.

As suggested by Melebius, here the full output after running sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms:

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  virtualbox
Version: 5.2.10
Kernel:  4.15.0-30-generic (x86_64)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

vboxdrv.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.15.0-30-generic/updates/dkms/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.


vboxnetadp.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.15.0-30-generic/updates/dkms/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.


vboxnetflt.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.15.0-30-generic/updates/dkms/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.


vboxpci.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.15.0-30-generic/updates/dkms/
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

depmod...

DKMS: uninstall completed.

-------- Uninstall Beginning --------
Module:  virtualbox
Version: 5.2.10
Kernel:  4.15.0-33-generic (x86_64)
-------------------------------------

Status: Before uninstall, this module version was ACTIVE on this kernel.

vboxdrv.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.15.0-33-generic/
rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.


vboxnetadp.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.15.0-33-generic/
rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.


vboxnetflt.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.15.0-33-generic/
rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.


vboxpci.ko:
 - Uninstallation
   - Deleting from: /lib/modules/4.15.0-33-generic/
rmdir: failed to remove '': No such file or directory
 - Original module
   - No original module was found for this module on this kernel.
   - Use the dkms install command to reinstall any previous module version.

depmod...

DKMS: uninstall completed.

------------------------------
Deleting module version: 5.2.10
completely from the DKMS tree.
------------------------------
Done.
Loading new virtualbox-5.2.10 DKMS files...
Building for 4.15.0-30-generic 4.15.0-33-generic
Building initial module for 4.15.0-30-generic
Done.

vboxdrv:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/4.15.0-30-generic/updates/dkms/

vboxnetadp.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/4.15.0-30-generic/updates/dkms/

vboxnetflt.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/4.15.0-30-generic/updates/dkms/

vboxpci.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
 - Original module
   - No original module exists within this kernel
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/4.15.0-30-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod...

DKMS: install completed.
Building initial module for 4.15.0-33-generic
Done.

vboxdrv:
Running module version sanity check.
modinfo: ERROR: could not get modinfo from 'vboxdrv': Invalid argument
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/4.15.0-33-generic/updates/dkms/

vboxnetadp.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
modinfo: ERROR: could not get modinfo from 'vboxnetadp': Invalid argument
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/4.15.0-33-generic/updates/dkms/

vboxnetflt.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
modinfo: ERROR: could not get modinfo from 'vboxnetflt': Invalid argument
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/4.15.0-33-generic/updates/dkms/

vboxpci.ko:
Running module version sanity check.
modinfo: ERROR: could not get modinfo from 'vboxpci': Invalid argument
 - Original module
 - Installation
   - Installing to /lib/modules/4.15.0-33-generic/updates/dkms/

depmod...

DKMS: install completed.
Job for virtualbox.service failed because the control process exited with error code.
See "systemctl status virtualbox.service" and "journalctl -xe" for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript virtualbox, action "restart" failed.
● virtualbox.service - LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module
   Loaded: loaded (/etc/init.d/virtualbox; generated)
   Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-08-27 15:38:36 UTC; 5ms ago
     Docs: man:systemd-sysv-generator(8)
  Process: 9229 ExecStart=/etc/init.d/virtualbox start (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)

Aug 27 15:38:36 cmsuite-build-machine systemd[1]: Starting LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module...
Aug 27 15:38:36 cmsuite-build-machine virtualbox[9229]:  * Loading VirtualBox kernel modules...
Aug 27 15:38:36 cmsuite-build-machine virtualbox[9229]:  * modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use 'dmesg' to find out why
Aug 27 15:38:36 cmsuite-build-machine virtualbox[9229]:    ...fail!
Aug 27 15:38:36 cmsuite-build-machine systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Control process exited, code=exited status=1
Aug 27 15:38:36 cmsuite-build-machine systemd[1]: virtualbox.service: Failed with result 'exit-code'.
Aug 27 15:38:36 cmsuite-build-machine systemd[1]: Failed to start LSB: VirtualBox Linux kernel module.

What am I doing wrong?

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  • As far as I understood I need the [arch=amd64] in order to avoid the error message N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bionic InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'.
    – Michael Dorner
    Aug 14, 2018 at 12:45
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    Possible duplicate of Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages
    – Melebius
    Aug 14, 2018 at 12:46
  • Thanks for the related post, but this means the official instructions made by Oracle are not working!
    – Michael Dorner
    Aug 14, 2018 at 12:56
  • You could get virtualbox-5.2 using the default Ubuntu repository. I wouldn’t bother with 3rd party repositories unless there is an important improvement in the version provided by them.
    – Melebius
    Aug 14, 2018 at 13:03
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    Did you forget to enable CPU virtualization in BIOS? Are you sure that your CPU supports it? Please add output of cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "model name" | uniq and grep -E "svm|vmx" /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l to the question.
    – N0rbert
    Aug 14, 2018 at 13:49

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Reset to default
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I was facing the same issue. I suggest you disable TPM and SecureBoot in your UEFI settings.

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