Please add Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) Support to the PPA

[Neti_Netwalker]

Please add Ubuntu 17.10 (artful) Support to the PPA

[Israel Rodrigo Faria]

Right now Ubuntu 17.10 is showing an error trying to use VirtualBox apt repository:

E: The repository 'http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian zetsy Release' does not have a Release file.

The solution my be as simple as adding an artful dist folder to the repo and using the same Release file as zesty with the corrected codename.

Thanks!

[Jack Taylor]

I too would like to see artful supported in the PPA. This would be very useful for installing ​MediaWiki-Vagrant. My installation is failing when using the official Ubuntu repositories, which are still on VirtualBox 5.1.30, and I think upgrading may help.

The solution my be as simple as adding an artful dist folder to the repo and using the same Release file as zetsy with the corrected codename.

It's "zesty", not "zetsy". Still, using the zesty repository for artful doesn't work, as it doesn't get signed correctly. When I tried the following code on Ubuntu 17.10:

$ sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian zesty contrib"
$ sudo apt-get update

I got this error:

W: GPG error: http://download.virtualbox.org/debian zesty InRelease: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY A2F683C52980AECF
E: The repository 'http://download.virtualbox.org/debian zesty InRelease' is not signed.

[LCNb2CkQt2Vf]

Why is not the artful supported? (Since more than a month.) When will it be?

All our virtual machines are unusable!!

-- Or not? How to use them? -- I did not dare so far to use the zesty edition of virtualbox, as the wiki prohibits this mismatching (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads).

$ lsb_release -sc
artful
$ sudo apt-get update
....(ok)
$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
....(ok)
$ sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list
....(uncommenting)
$ grep '^deb.*virtual' /etc/apt/sources.list
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian artful contrib
$ sudo apt-get update
Hit:1 http://ny-mirrors.evowise.com/ubuntu artful InRelease
Hit:2 http://ny-mirrors.evowise.com/ubuntu artful-updates InRelease                       
Hit:3 http://ny-mirrors.evowise.com/ubuntu artful-security InRelease                      
Ign:4 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian artful InRelease
Err:5 http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian artful Release
  404  Not Found [IP: 80.999.999.999 80]
Reading package lists... Done
E: The repository 'http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian artful Release' does not have a Release file.
N: Updating from such a repository can't be done securely, and is therefore disabled by default.
N: See apt-secure(8) manpage for repository creation and user configuration details.

[Israel Rodrigo Faria]

It seems that they have added artful support now. Instructions of download page shows:

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian artful contrib