On 2018-07-29 at 23:43, 慕 冬亮 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> my host system is Debian Buster(i.e., Debian Testing). When I installed
> Virtualbox-5.2, I encountered "unmet dependencies". The details is in
> the following:
>
> $ sudo apt install virtualbox-5.2
$ apt-cache policy virtualbox-5.2
virtualbox-5.2:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: (none)
Version table:
$ apt-cache policy virtualbox
virtualbox:
Installed: 5.2.16-dfsg-3
Candidate: 5.2.16-dfsg-3
Version table:
*** 5.2.16-dfsg-3 500
500 http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian testing/contrib amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
It looks as if virtualbox-5.2 is a virtual or otherwise nonexistent
package - i.e., one mentioned in dependencies (etc.) by other packages,
but which does not actually exist in the archive.
> [sudo] password for mdl:
> 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-5.2 : Depends: libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2) but it is not going to
> be installed
However, the fact that you get a dependency list for it would seem to
contradict that.
(For what it's worth, I don't have libcurl3 installed at all, and yet I
do have virtualbox present - just not virtualbox-5.2.)
What do you get from the 'apt-cache policy' commands above?
What about from 'apt-cache show virtualbox-5.2'?
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