Re: Bookworm Fasttrack and Virtualbox

[Xiyue Deng <manphiz@gmail.com>]

"Miguel A. Vallejo" <ea4eoz@gmail.com> writes:

> Hello!
>
> This evening I tried to install virtualbox into a fresh Bookworm install. I
> followed the steps in Virtualbox's Debian Wiki entry. After set up
> fasttrack repository successfully and issue a apt install virtualbox
> command I get:
>
>
>
> Reading package lists... Done
> Building dependency tree... Done
> 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: Depends: python3 (< 3.10) but 3.11.2-1+b1 is to be installed
>               Depends: python3.9 but it is not installable
>               Depends: libgsoap-2.8.104 but it is not installable
>               Depends: libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1) but it is not installable
>               Depends: libvpx6 (>= 1.6.0) but it is not installable
>               Recommends: virtualbox-qt (= 7.0 .6-dfsg-1~fto11+1) but it is
> not going to be installed
>               Recommends: libqt5opengl5 (>= 5.0.2) but it is not going to
> be installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
>
>
>
> I was surprised by the python 3.9 dependency, it leads me to think
> fasttrack repos are abandoned? What is the right way to install virtualbox
> in Debian Bookworm?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Miguel A. Vallejo

If you followed the fasttrack instruction on the website[1] literally,
you may be adding bullseye-fasttrack instead of bookworm-fasttrack where
the latter is what you wanted.

[1] https://fasttrack.debian.net/

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Xiyue Deng