Oracle VirtualBox 5.2.8 has been released on February 27th, 2018. Oracle VirtualBox 5.2 is the latest major release after launched by Oracle team. This version has the new feature to export VM to Oracle Cloud, Unattended guest installation, improved tools handling with more attractive icons. Oracle team also added an experimental feature for audio support for video recording. See the ChangeLog for more details.
This article helps you to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS systems.
Step 1 – Prerequsities
You must have logged in to your server using root or sudo privileged user. After login to your system update current packages of the system to the latest version.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
Step 2 – Configure Apt Repository
Let’s import the Oracle public key to your system signed the Debian packages using the following commands.
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Now, you need to add Oracle VirtualBox PPA to Ubuntu system. You can do this by running the below command on your system.
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib"
This command will add an entry to /etc/apt/sources.list at end of the file.
Step 3 – Install Oracle VirtualBox
After completing the above steps, let’s install VirtualBox using the following commands. If you have already installed an older version of VirtualBox, Below command will update it automatically.
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2
Step 4 – Launch VirtualBox
We can use dashboard shortcuts to start VirtualBox or simply run following command from a terminal.
virtualbox
Great tutorial, I think there is a typo. Is the line added to your /etc/apt/sources.list should be “https” and not “http”? Thanks
just get rid of the version number
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
[email protected]:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2
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-5.2 : Depends: libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2) but it is not installable
Depends: libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4) but it is not installable
Depends: libvpx3 (>= 1.5.0) but it is not installable
Recommends: libsdl-ttf2.0-0 but it is not installable
Recommends: gcc but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: make but it is not installable or
build-essential but it is not installable or
dpkg-dev but it is not going to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
[email protected]:~$
Run
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
then copy and past the following at last of the file and Save it, if your dist is xenial, or run lsb_release -c to see your dist
Then add this line in your source list, and remove others dist
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib
Thanks very much
worked like charm for ubuntu 16.04 on AMD 64
thanks
S
There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run
/sbin/vboxconfig
as root.
I can try this ,but error is not resolved, please help me.
I have the same problem! Did you solve it?
I had problem running virtualbox after setting up. This was because I was using older kernel version (4.15) on ubuntu. To find out kernel version run:
uname -r
if it shows older version, update your kernel version to 4.19