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Oracle VirtualBox 6.0.0 has been released on December 18, 2018. Oracle VirtualBox 6.0 is the latest major release after launched by Oracle team.
You can read the to know more about changes in newer version’s of VirtualBox. This tutorial will help you to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Bionic Beaver Linux systems. Step 1 – Prerequsities Login to your Ubuntu 18.04 desktop system with sudo privileged user. After login to your system update current packages of the system to the latest version.
VirtualBox is a very popular hypervisor available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. For Ubuntu Virtualbox provides a.deb package which we can easily install from the Ubuntu software center. Steps to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04: Download Oracle VM VirtualBox for Ubuntu 18.04. Install VirtualBox with software installer. I am having a problem trying to install the guest additions for my ubuntu 18.04 and virtualbox 5.2.12 I thought I did something wrong so I tried to install the additions from the CLI, unistalled and installed dkms.
Sudo apt update sudo apt upgrade Step 2 – Setup Apt Repository Now, import the Oracle public key to your system signed the Debian packages using the following commands. Wget -q -O- sudo apt-key add - wget -q -O- sudo apt-key add - Then, 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 bionic contrib' This command will add an entry to /etc/apt/sources.list at end of the file. Step 3 – Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 18.04 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 update sudo apt install virtualbox-6.0 Step 4 – Launch VirtualBox We can use dashboard shortcuts to start VirtualBox or simply run following command from a terminal.