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Hi all,
today I tryed to update my machine (Debian 8 Testing - Stretch - x64) with the latest software upgrades and, at the same time, to upgrade VirtualBox from version 4.3.28 to version 5.0.0.

First, I completely uninstalled VirtualBox 4.3.28 ... OK

Second, I updated my machine with latest software upgrades ... OK

Third, I tryed to install VirtualBox 5.0.0 ... KO

apt-get tells me that it's impossible to install VB because there are missing dependencies

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sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

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-5.0 : Depends: libvpx1 (>= 1.0.0) but it is not installable
                  Recommends: libsdl-ttf2.0-0 but it is not going to be installed
                  Recommends: linux-headers but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

There's a solution?

Some additional information

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uname -a

Linux arkham 4.0.0-2-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 4.0.8-1 (2015-07-11) x86_64 GNU/Linux

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dpkg -l | grep -i libvpx

ii  libvpx2:amd64                         1.4.0-4                             amd64        VP8 and VP9 video codec (shared library)

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dpkg -l | grep -i headers

ii  linux-headers-3.16.0-4-amd64          3.16.7-ckt11-1                      amd64        Header files for Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64
ii  linux-headers-3.16.0-4-common         3.16.7-ckt11-1                      amd64        Common header files for Linux 3.16.0-4
ii  linux-headers-4.0.0-2-amd64           4.0.8-1                             amd64        Header files for Linux 4.0.0-2-amd64
ii  linux-headers-4.0.0-2-common          4.0.8-1                             amd64        Common header files for Linux 4.0.0-2
ii  linux-headers-amd64                   4.0+65                              amd64        Header files for Linux amd64 configuration (meta-package)
ii  linux-libc-dev:amd64                  4.0.8-1                             amd64        Linux support headers for userspace development

Usually an apt-get install -f will fix this after you try and fail due to missing depends. But this is an OS in testing and sometimes it does not have the necessary packages in their repo. or may not have back-ported the ones needed yet. Not much that VirtualBox can do about it. You need to ask them what to do.

OK, thanks Perryg

A suggestion:
add jessie to list, then install previous version of libvpx1

add jessie to source.list
apt-get update
apt-get -t jessie install libvpx1
try VBox 5.0 installation again

Thanks for your suggestion, but I prefer to keep the file source.list clean. As last solution, I will install the package present in official testing repositories, currently 4.3.30

Dear Virtualbox,

Could you modify the dependence: libvpx2 > 1.4.0 by libvpx3 > 1.5.0 ?
The recent distribution doesn't have libvpx2

On my side : ubuntu 16.04 , it s only : libvpx3 / 1.5.0-2ubuntu1

Regards,
Frédéric

Let's see:
• 5.0.0 - Does not apply.
• Debian - Does not apply.
• libvpx2 - Does not apply.

Frédéric, why did you post in this thread and did not start a new one? Please start a new thread with full details of the problem. Thanks.

Hi

Feel free to remove my previous comment and this one ( It was the first result / thread of google search or qwant )

But I solved my issue.

Even if I am in ubuntu 16.04,
My virtualbox dependence was creating on 15.10. ( before upgrade )

In the
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.org.list
I had : "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wily non-free contrib"
wily name, but I am in xenial 16.04

By Changeing to
"deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial non-free contrib"

The dependance is solved

Regards,

virtualbox.org

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