How to Install Oracle VirtualBox 6.0 on Debian 9 (Stretch)

    RahulBy 2 Mins ReadUpdated:

    The VirtualBox is the most used Virtualization platform by the users. It is free and opensource hypervisor for x86 computers. You can easily install VirtualBox on a Debian Linux system with simple steps.

    This article helps you to install VirtualBox on Debian 9 (Stretch) Linux machine.

    Step 1 – Prerequsities

    Login to your Debian server with 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.

    echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list

    This command will create a file and make entry to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list.

    Step 3 – Import Sign Key

    After adding the required apt repository on your system, download and import the Oracle public key for apt-secure using 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 -

    Step 4 – Install VirtualBox on Debian

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

    sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.0

    Step 5 – 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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    14 Comments

    1. jimmy on

      como solucionar esto, muchas gracias.

      [email protected]:~# sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.0
      Leyendo lista de paquetes… Hecho
      Creando árbol de dependencias
      Leyendo la información de estado… Hecho
      No se pudieron instalar algunos paquetes. Esto puede significar que
      usted pidió una situación imposible o, si está usando la distribución
      inestable, que algunos paquetes necesarios aún no se han creado o se
      han sacado de «Incoming».
      La siguiente información puede ayudar a resolver la situación:

      Los siguientes paquetes tienen dependencias incumplidas:
      virtualbox-6.0 : Depende: libcurl3 (>= 7.16.2) pero no es instalable
      Depende: libvpx4 (>= 1.6.0) pero no es instalable
      Recomienda: libsdl-ttf2.0-0 pero no va a instalarse
      Recomienda: linux-image pero no es instalable
      E: No se pudieron corregir los problemas, usted ha retenido paquetes rotos.

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    2. Prakash on

      I always get this message, when I use sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.0

      E: Unable to locate package virtualbox-6.0
      E: Couldn’t find any package by glob ‘virtualbox-6.0’
      E: Couldn’t find any package by regex ‘virtualbox-6.0’

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    6. Alejandro Otalvaro V on

      HI Rahul, I tried witt your recommendations and appear this trouble
      vboxdrv.sh: failed: modprobe vboxdrv failed. Please use ‘dmesg’ to find out why.

      There were problems setting up VirtualBox. To re-start the set-up process, run
      /sbin/vboxconfig
      as root. If your system is using EFI Secure Boot you may need to sign the
      kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt, vboxnetadp, vboxpci) before you can load
      them. Please see your Linux system’s documentation for more information.

      May you help me?,thanks for everything

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    9. Leandro Ramos on

      Thanks for this tutorial, it helped me a lot.
      I would like to suggest you to create a virtualbox.list file instead of changing the sources.list, like this:

      echo “deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian stretch contrib” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list

      It’s a way to keep sources.list with just Debian repositories.

      Thank you.

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        • AFRIZAL on

          Rahull…do you have package installer & configuration of debian 9 (format file is .VDI)??, if you have to..could you give me that file..???please..

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    10. Gustavo on

      Thank you very mucho, you made my life easier and thanks to you I decided to give a second opportunity (which I’m already liking it a lot)

      Reply

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