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Installing VirtualBox 2.0 On An Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop This tutorial shows how you can install Sun xVM VirtualBox on an Ubuntu 8.10 desktop. With VirtualBox you can create and run guest operating systems ("virtual machines") such as Linux and Windows under a host operating system. There are two ways of installing VirtualBox: from precompiled binaries that are available for some distributions and come under the PUEL license, and from the sources that are released under the GPL. This article will show how to set up VirtualBox 2.0 from the precompiled binaries.
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Thanks for the step by step, I was able to follow you instructions VirtualBox is now installed on my Linux box.
Thanks, again!
You can install VirtualBox from repositories just in one line. The following line first add the repositories, then update the repositories and finally install VirtualBox and adds your current user to vboxusers' group. Don't forget to replace intrepid with your Ubuntu name.
Here you have the line:
echo deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list && wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install virtualbox-2.0 && sudo adduser $(whoami) vboxusers
You can also read a better explanation is Spanish in http://sliceoflinux.wordpress.com.
Thanks. Your terminal one liner works very well. Most importantly it adds the vbox apt respository so that vbox will receive updates.
Why not:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
Hi Jarno, I was using the command line like you have said. However, sometimes the newer version of Virtualbox has not yet got the full package for the command line installation. I am not sure what is that called but this problem can be solved by reinstalling directly as mentioned in this tutorial.