Comment 79 for bug 1424769

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Gianfranco Costamagna (costamagnagianfranco) wrote :

I did create a trusty chroot, installed the lts-xenial stack (mesa, kernel, xorg) and apt-get installed successfully the virtualbox-guest-dkms-lts-xenial package.

Setting up virtualbox-guest-utils-lts-xenial (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.14.04.1~14.04.4) ...
Setting up virtualbox-guest-dkms-lts-xenial (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1ubuntu1.14.04.1~14.04.4) ...

of course the -vivid stack is not installable anymore and this is correct since I enabled the xenial stack

apt-get install virtualbox-guest-x11-lts-vivid
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-guest-x11-lts-vivid : Depends: xorg-video-abi-19
                                  Depends: xserver-xorg-core-lts-vivid (>= 2:1.16.99.901) but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.