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07 April 2018

How to Install Oracle VirtualBox 5.2 on Debian 8 (Jessie)

Written by Rahul K. | April 7, 2018
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VirtualBox is a free and opensource hypervisor for x86 computers. You can easily install VirtualBox on a Debian Linux system with simple steps. The Oracle provides official PPAs for the installation of VirtualBox on a Linux machine.

This article helps you to install VirtualBox on Debian 8 (Jessie) Linux machine.

Step 1 – Prerequsities

Login to your Debian server with a root or sudo privileged user and update current packages of your system to the latest version.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Step 2 – Add VirtualBox PPA

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 jessie contrib"

This command will add an entry to /etc/apt/sources.list at end of the file.

Step 3 – Install VirtualBox on Debian 8

You are required to import VirtualBox packages signing keys to your Debian system before installing it. These commands to import both keys to your system.

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 -

You are ready now to install VirtualBox on a Debian system. Run the following commands on the terminal to complete the VirtualBox installation on Debian system.

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.2

Step 4 – Launch VirtualBox

We can use launcher link on your Desktop system to start VirtualBox or simply use command from a terminal.

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