Cannot install virtualbox 5.1 on Ubuntu 17.04

Try running this

$ echo deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list
$ wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
$ sudo apt-get update
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1

After it finishes installing run

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

just to make sure you got the latest version

1. Verify you downloaded the correct package i386/amd64 from https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

2. sudo dpkg -i virtualbox*.deb It throws dependencies error

3. sudo apt-get -f install
4. run sudo dpkg -i virtualbox*.deb again.

You can easily install from ppa sudo apt-get install virtualbox