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I have recently installed Linux Mint on a new machine and I am trying to download virtual box.

The problem is it won't download because of this error:

Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libc6 (>=2.27)

When I run:

sudo apt-get install libc6

It tells me

libc6 is already the newest version (2.23-0ubuntu10).

When I update the cache of my software sources I get the message that it could not download all repository indexes so I assume it might be related to that but I have no idea how to fix it.

Chris Starling
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  • This is a system administration question, not a programming question. Go to the relevant sister site. BTW you should avoid mixing distribution packages with external sources. – Giacomo Catenazzi Mar 28 '18 at 14:11

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Sometimes it happens when you try to run the wrong version (build) of the application in your system.

img_VirtualBox_Error

As an example, the current Virtualbox version is 6.1.22. And I download it for the Ubuntu 19.10 / 20.04 / 20.10 / 21.04 host because there is no separate download link available for Linux Mint distribution. But my Linux Mint distribution is 19.3 cinnamon and Mint 19.3 is based on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. So, the Virtualbox version which is built for Ubuntu 20.04, 20.10, 21.04 is not going to work for the distribution which is using Ubuntu 18.04. This is the reason for getting ( Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libc6 (>=2.29) ) error.

When I downloaded the Virtualbox which is particularly built for Ubuntu 18.04 everything worked fine :)

For more clarity watch this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1K2zx32tBwA

OR, just download the VirtualBox from the Software Center. that will work fine too.

Mir Rahed Uddin
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I couldn't solve the issue but I managed to download virtual box through the software manager.

Chris Starling
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