Hi, I am also meeting with this issue, in Xubuntu Trusty latest version : 14.04.3. I can fix it by forcing the install of the missing depends which in return replace all the lts* packages for their non lts equivalent. **** $ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-guest-utils Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... 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 : Depends: xorg-video-abi-15 Depends: xserver-xorg-core (>= 2:1.14.99.902) E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages. # apt-get install virtualbox-guest-x11 virtualbox-guest-utils xorg-video-abi-15 xserver-xorg-core Reading package lists... Building dependency tree... Reading state information... The following extra packages will be installed: dkms fakeroot libfakeroot libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libllvm3.4 virtualbox-guest-dkms xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom Suggested packages: dpkg-dev debhelper libglide3 xfonts-100dpi xfonts-75dpi touchfreeze The following packages will be REMOVED: libegl1-mesa-lts-vivid libgbm1-lts-vivid libgl1-mesa-dri-lts-vivid libgl1-mesa-glx-lts-vivid libglapi-mesa-lts-vivid libgles1-mesa-lts-vivid libgles2-mesa-lts-vivid libwayland-egl1-mesa-lts-vivid libxatracker2-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-core-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-input-all-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-input-evdev-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-input-mouse-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-input-mtrack-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-input-synaptics-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-input-wacom-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-all-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-ati-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-cirrus-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-fbdev-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-intel-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-mach64-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-mga-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-neomagic-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-nouveau-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-openchrome-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-r128-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-radeon-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-savage-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-siliconmotion-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-sisusb-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-tdfx-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-trident-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-vesa-lts-vivid xserver-xorg-video-vmware-lts-vivid The following NEW packages will be installed: dkms fakeroot libfakeroot libgl1-mesa-dri libgl1-mesa-glx libglapi-mesa libllvm3.4 virtualbox-guest-dkms virtualbox-guest-utils virtualbox-guest-x11 xserver-xorg xserver-xorg-core xserver-xorg-input-all xserver-xorg-input-evdev xserver-xorg-input-mouse xserver-xorg-input-synaptics xserver-xorg-input-vmmouse xserver-xorg-input-wacom 0 upgraded, 18 newly installed, 37 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 15.1 MB of archives. After this operation, 47.7 MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ****