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I followed this Ask Ubuntu guide, I manually downloaded virtual box from this link and tried to install like: 

$ dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.16-105871~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb

But no success, I got this error:

    dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-5.0 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for systemd (219-7ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.14-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+15.04.20150202-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-5.0

I got the Oracle Virtual box icon in applications, when i click, it does not open, so geny motion does not recognize any virtual box, so it could not start as well.

Please help me. I have already used 

sudo apt-get remove --purge virtualbox*
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib"
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

No success. What am I doing wrong?

  • Ubuntu 15.04
  • Java version javac 1.8.0_74
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    Look at your add-apt-repository. You're using trusty repositories instead of vivid repositories
    – bitseater
    Mar 12, 2016 at 8:37

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Although Ubuntu 15.04 is not supported anymore, you can install VirtualBox this way :

First completely remove all traces from the previous VirtualBox installation attempts. 

sudo apt-get purge "^virtualbox-.*"

Download and register the ORACLE public key. 

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

Add the VirtualBox repository to the sources.

echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian vivid contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-vbox.list

Update the repositories : 

sudo apt-get update

Install VirtualBox 5.0 : 

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

Note for other users reading this answer, in case they use another Ubuntu edition as 15.04 :

You have to replace vivid with the Ubuntu edition you are using when adding the repository !

As of Ubuntu 16.04 the ORACLE public key to download and register has changed :

oracle_vbox.asc has to be replaced with oracle_vbox_2016.asc !

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  • then, how can i install virtual box on my ubuntu 15.04 , can i have try with Ubuntu 15.10 ("Wily") i386 for my 64 bit ??
    – Amul Bhatia
    Mar 12, 2016 at 10:57
  • @AmulBhatia : Install VirtualBox in Ubuntu 15.04 exactly as described in the answer - of course Ubuntu 15.04 has to be installed in the 64 bit version when you want to use virtualization technology at all ! :)
    – cl-netbox
    Mar 12, 2016 at 11:10
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Download the .deb file from here and then run

sudo dpkg -i <downloaded_file_name>

That should fix your issues

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I would not go for AMD package.

  1. Type uname -a in command line.
    OUTPUT:
    Linux christopher 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:31:42 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
  2. I know AMD is not the one.
  3. Go to this page and select the i386 version
  4. Download and install
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