Errors installing Virtualbox 7.0 on Elsie 5

[Cornelius]

Hey Linux-Rox, thanks for posting these instructions. I followed your terminal commands... ( I am on Elsie 5... version 20 I think)
I followed your prompts but I get this message:

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-7.0 : Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34) but 2.31-13+deb11u3 is to be installed
Depends: libssl3 (>= 3.0.0~~alpha1) but it is not installable
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 12) but 10.2.1-6 is to be installed
Depends: libvpx7 (>= 1.10.0) but it is not installable
Recommends: libsdl-ttf2.0-0 but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: linux-image but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

Any suggestions on what to do?

[t42]

For ppa you need to use Oracle's instructions for Debian 11 https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads under Debian-based Linux distributions or just install deb file https://download.virtualbox.org/virtual ... _amd64.deb

[SMG]

Hey Linux-Rox, thanks for posting these instructions. I followed your terminal commands... ( I am on Elsie 5... version 20 I think)

Welcome to the forum, Cornelius.

You followed directions for the version of Linux Mint which is based on Ubuntu. The version you are using, Elsie 5, is based on Debian. We have a separate forums for LMDE5 Elsie questions which is to where I moved your question.

Let us know if t42's links help you.

[linux-rox]

Just noticed the thread. The linked instructions need only one small adjustment for Elsie, replacing jammy with bullseye. This worked for me:

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echo "deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/oracle-virtualbox-2016.gpg] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bullseye contrib" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
wget -O- https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc | sudo gpg --dearmor --yes --output /usr/share/keyrings/oracle-virtualbox-2016.gpg
apt update
apt install virtualbox-7.0