How To Install VirtualBox On Linux Based Operating Systems.
VirtualBox is one of the most popular virtualization software available in multiple platforms like Windows, Linux, MacOS and Solaris x86 platforms. In this tutorial, we will guide you through the process of installing VirtualBox on Linux based operating systems.
Meanwhile, if you wants to download .deb files and wants to install by yourself.
Install VirtualBox On Linux
For Ubuntu or Debian based Linux operating systems:
Install VirtualBox from Ubuntu Repository
Open the terminal and run the following command.
sudo apt install VirtualBox
Run the following command to verify the installation of VirtualBox.
dpkg -l | grep virtualbox
Install VirtualBox On Ubuntu using Oracle’s repository
Run this command in your terminal
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo gpg --dearmor -o /usr/share/keyrings/oracle-virtualbox-2016.gpg
Run this command in your terminal
sudo add-apt-repository "deb [arch=amd64] http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -cs) contrib"
Run the following command to update the package list.
sudo apt-get update
Run the following command to install Virtual Box on Ubuntu.
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
For other Linux:
- Oracle Linux 9 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
- Oracle Linux 8 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
- Oracle Linux 7 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 / CentOS 7
- openSUSE 15.3 / 15.4 / 15.5
- Fedora 36 / 37 / 38
- Fedora 35
- All distributions
