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I follow virtualbox official tutorial Debian-based Linux distributions but something is wrong

osboxes@osboxes:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.0
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-6.0 : Depends: libqt5x11extras5 (>= 5.6.0) but it is not installable
                  Recommends: libsdl-ttf2.0-0 but it is not installable
                  Recommends: pdf-viewer
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
Melebius
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Adding some repositories and installing the missing dependencies worked for me:

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo add-apt-repository multiverse
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bionic contrib"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install libpng16-16 libqt5core5a libqt5printsupport5 libqt5widgets5 libqt5x11extras5
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.0

Based on this answer: Virtual Box 5.1.22 Installation Failure

Binyamin
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