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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="install-linux-debian-ubuntu">
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| 4 | <title>Installing Oracle VM VirtualBox from a Debian or Ubuntu Package</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | Download the appropriate package for your distribution. The
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| 9 | following example assumes that you are installing to a 64-bit
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| 10 | Ubuntu Xenial system. Use <userinput>dpkg</userinput> to install
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| 11 | the Debian package,as follows:
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| 12 | </p>
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| 13 | <pre xml:space="preserve">sudo dpkg -i virtualbox-<varname>version-number</varname>_Ubuntu_xenial_amd64.deb</pre>
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| 14 | <p>
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| 15 | The installer will also try to build kernel modules suitable
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| 16 | for the current running kernel. If the build process is not
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| 17 | successful you will be shown a warning and the package will be
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| 18 | left unconfigured. Look at
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| 19 | <filepath>/var/log/vbox-install.log</filepath> to find out why
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| 20 | the compilation failed. You may have to install the
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| 21 | appropriate Linux kernel headers, see
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| 22 | <xref href="externalkernelmodules.dita#externalkernelmodules"/>. After correcting any
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| 23 | problems, run the following command:
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| 24 | </p>
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| 25 | <pre xml:space="preserve">sudo rcvboxdrv setup</pre>
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| 26 | <p>
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| 27 | This will start a second attempt to build the module.
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| 28 | </p>
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| 29 | <p>
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| 30 | If a suitable kernel module was found in the package or the
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| 31 | module was successfully built, the installation script will
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| 32 | attempt to load that module. If this fails, please see
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| 33 | <xref href="ts_linux-kernelmodule-fails-to-load.dita">Linux Kernel Module Refuses to Load</xref> for
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| 34 | further information.
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| 35 | </p>
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| 36 | <p>
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| 37 | Once Oracle VM VirtualBox has been successfully installed and
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| 38 | configured, you can start it by clicking
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| 39 | <b outputclass="bold">VirtualBox</b> in your
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| 40 | <b outputclass="bold">Start</b> menu or from the
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| 41 | command line. See <xref href="startingvboxonlinux.dita"/>.
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| 42 | </p>
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| 43 | </body>
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| 44 |
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| 45 | </topic>
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