Unable to Install Virtualbox into my Ubuntu 19.10

Question

Trying to install Virtualbox on ubuntu 19.10 but after using sudo apt install virtualboxthe same error appears again and again. Could anyone please help me resolve the issue and Install it.

`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-qt : Depends: virtualbox (= 6.0.14-dfsg-1)
                 Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.3.0) but it is not installable or
                          libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.3.0) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libqt5opengl5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.11.0~rc1) but it is not installable
                 Depends: libqt5x11extras5 (>= 5.6.0) but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
`

After Running sudo add-apt-repository multiverse && sudo apt-get update, the output is:-

 'multiverse' distribution component enabled for all sources.
Hit:1 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu eoan InRelease            
Hit:2 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxuprising/java/ubuntu eoan InRelease        
Hit:3 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian eoan InRelease          
Hit:4 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nathan-renniewaldock/flux/ubuntu eoan InRelease 
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/persepolis/ppa/ubuntu eoan InRelease            
Hit:6 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease                   
Get:7 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan InRelease [255 kB]
Get:8 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/multiverse amd64 Packages [153 kB] 
Get:9 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/multiverse i386 Packages [141 kB]  
Get:10 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/multiverse Translation-en [111 kB]
Get:11 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [51.1 kB]
Get:12 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/multiverse DEP-11 48x48 Icons [7,665 B]
Get:13 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/multiverse DEP-11 64x64 Icons [229 kB]
Get:14 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan/multiverse amd64 c-n-f Metadata [9,424 B]
Fetched 957 kB in 10s (96.9 kB/s)                                              
Reading package lists... Done
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_IN) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (contrib/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (contrib/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_IN) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (contrib/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (contrib/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian eoan InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_IN) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (contrib/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (contrib/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_IN) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (contrib/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (contrib/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
Hit:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu eoan InRelease                          
Hit:2 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian eoan InRelease          
Hit:3 http://ppa.launchpad.net/gezakovacs/ppa/ubuntu eoan InRelease            
Hit:4 https://download.sublimetext.com apt/stable/ InRelease                   
Hit:5 http://ppa.launchpad.net/linuxuprising/java/ubuntu eoan InRelease        
Hit:6 http://ppa.launchpad.net/nathan-renniewaldock/flux/ubuntu eoan InRelease
Hit:7 http://ppa.launchpad.net/persepolis/ppa/ubuntu eoan InRelease
Reading package lists... Done
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_IN) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (contrib/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (contrib/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_IN) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (contrib/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (contrib/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
N: Skipping acquire of configured file 'contrib/binary-i386/Packages' as repository 'http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian eoan InRelease' doesn't support architecture 'i386'
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_IN) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (contrib/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (contrib/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-amd64/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Packages (contrib/binary-all/Packages) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en_IN) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target Translations (contrib/i18n/Translation-en) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-amd64.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11 (contrib/dep11/Components-all.yml) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons-small (contrib/dep11/icons-48x48.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target DEP-11-icons (contrib/dep11/icons-64x64.tar) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-amd64) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1
W: Target CNF (contrib/cnf/Commands-all) is configured multiple times in /etc/apt/sources.list:1 and /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:1

The dkms status is

rtlwifi-new, 0.6, 5.3.0-18-generic, x86_64: installed

dpkg -l virtualbox is

Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name                     Version      Architecture Description
+++-========================-============-============-=========================
un  virtualbox-guest-dkms    <none>       <none>       (no description available
un  virtualbox-guest-modules <none>       <none>       (no description available

The output of grep -i virtualbox /etc/apt/sources.list is

# deb [arch=amd64] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian eoan contrib

Output of grep -i virtualbox /etc/apt/sources.list.d/*.list is

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list:deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian eoan contrib /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list:deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian eoan contrib

Output of sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.1 is

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-6.1 : Depends: libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5gui5 (>= 5.4.0) but it is not going to be installed or
                           libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.4.0) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5opengl5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5printsupport5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.12.2) but it is not going to be installed
                  Depends: libqt5x11extras5 (>= 5.6.0) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Answer 1

Edit this file...

sudo -H gedit /etc/apt/sources.list # primary sources.list

And change this:

# deb [arch=amd64] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian eoan contrib

To this:

deb [arch=amd64] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian eoan contrib

And delete these two files...

sudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-virtualbox.list # duplicate

sudo rm -i /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list # duplicate

Install virtualbox-6.1...

sudo apt-get update # update software databases

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.1 # install virtualbox

Update #1:

Before the installing Virtualbox step, we had to fix some held/broken packages, and then we had to open Software & Updates and enable all of the appropriate Ubuntu repositories.

Answer 2

It seems like you have broken sources. Check if the command "sudo apt update" solves this problem.

Keep in mind though that VBox in the ubuntu repositories is quite out-dated. You are better off installing VBox from the Oracle Repository. To do this, create the file " /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list with the following content:

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

After that, add the gpg key so it's source can be checked

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

You can then install VBox with the command "sudo apt update; sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1"