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Download VirtualBox for Linux Hosts
VirtualBox 4.3.12 for Linux
Note: The package architecture has to match the Linux kernel architecture, that is, if you are running a 64-bit kernel, install the appropriate AMD64 package (it does not matter if you have an Intel or an AMD CPU). Mixed installations (e.g. Debian/Lenny ships an AMD64 kernel with 32-bit packages) are not supported. To install VirtualBox anyway you need to setup a 64-bit chroot environment.
Please choose the appropriate package for your Linux distribution:
- Ubuntu 13.04 ("Raring Ringtail") / 13.10 ("Saucy Salamander") / 14.04 ("Trusty Tahr") i386 | AMD64
- Ubuntu 12.10 ("Quantal Quetzal") i386 | AMD64
- Ubuntu 12.04 LTS ("Precise Pangolin") i386 | AMD64
- Ubuntu 10.04 LTS ("Lucid Lynx") i386 | AMD64
- Debian 7.0 ("Wheezy") i386 | AMD64
- Debian 6.0 ("Squeeze") i386 | AMD64
- openSUSE 12.3 / 13.1 i386 | AMD64
- openSUSE 11.4 / 12.1 / 12.2 i386 | AMD64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 (SLES11) i386 | AMD64
- SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (SLES10) i386 | AMD64
- Fedora 18 ("Spherical Cow") / 19 ("Schrödingers Cat") i386 | AMD64
- Fedora 17 ("Beefy Miracle") i386 | AMD64
- Mandriva 2011.0 i386 | AMD64
- Oracle Linux 6 ("OL6") / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ("RHEL6") / CentOS 6 i386 | AMD64
- Oracle Linux 5 ("OL5") / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ("RHEL5") / CentOS 5 i386 | AMD64
- All distributions i386 | AMD64
You might want to compare the
to verify the integrity of downloaded packages.
The SHA256 checksums should be favored as the MD5 algorithm must be treated as insecure!
Oracle Linux
Users of Oracle Linux 5 and 6 can use the public yum repository and enable the el5_addons (OEL5) or the ol6_addons (OL6). After that, do
yum install VirtualBox-4.3
to the latest maintenance release of VirtualBox 4.3.x.
Debian-based Linux distributions
Add one of the following lines according to your distribution to your /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian saucy contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian raring contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian quantal contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian lucid contrib non-free deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wheezy contrib deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian squeeze contrib non-free
(Up to version 3.2 the packages were located in the non-free section. Starting with version 4.0 they are located in the contrib section.)
The Oracle public key for apt-secure can be downloaded here. You can add this key with
sudo apt-key add oracle_vbox.asc
or combine downloading and registering:
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
The key fingerprint is
7B0F AB3A 13B9 0743 5925 D9C9 5442 2A4B 98AB 5139 Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key) <[email protected]>
(As of VirtualBox 3.2, the signing key was changed. The old Sun public key for apt-secure can be downloaded here.)
To install VirtualBox, do
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.3
Replace virtualbox-4.3 by
virtualbox-4.2to install VirtualBox 4.2.18virtualbox-4.1to install VirtualBox 4.1.28virtualbox-4.0to install VirtualBox 4.0.20virtualbox-3.2to install VirtualBox 3.2.18
Note: Ubuntu/Debian users might want to install the dkms package to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next apt-get upgrade. For Debian it is available in Lenny backports and in the normal repository for Squeeze and later. The dkms package can be installed through the Synaptic Package manager or through the following command:
sudo apt-get install dkms
What to do when experiencing The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG ... when refreshing the packages from the repository?
# sudo -s -H # apt-get clean # rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* # rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/* # apt-get clean # apt-get update
RPM-based Linux distributions
Starting with VirtualBox 3.0.12 we provide a yum-style repository for Oracle Linux/Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE. Note that 3.0.x .rpm packages are named VirtualBox-3.0.x while 3.1.x .rpm packages are named VirtualBox-3.1-3.1.x. This naming scheme allows to use the older 3.0.x packages without changing the repository.
Furthemore, all .rpm packages are signed. The Oracle public key for rpm can be downloaded here. You can add this key (not necessary for yum users, see below!) with
sudo rpm --import oracle_vbox.asc
or combine downloading and registering:
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | rpm --import -
The key fingerprint is
7B0F AB3A 13B9 0743 5925 D9C9 5442 2A4B 98AB 5139 Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key) <[email protected]>
After importing the public key, the package signature can be checked with
rpm --checksig PACKAGE_NAME
Note that importing the key is not necessary for yum users (Oracle Linux/Fedora/RHEL/CentOS) when using one of the virtualbox.repo files from below as yum downloads and imports the public key automatically!
The package signature is checked by yum/zypper as well:
- Users of Oracle Linux / RHEL can add the Oracle Linux repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d/.
- Users of Fedora can add the Fedora repo file to /etc/yum.repos.d/.
- Users of openSUSE can add the proper repo file for 10.3 (VirtualBox 3.0.x only), 11.0 (VirtualBox 3.2.x only), 11.1, 11.2,11.3, 11.4/12.1/12.2 or 12.3/13.1 to /etc/zypp/repos.d/.
Note: Users of Fedora/Mandriva might want to install the dkms package (not available on openSUSE) to ensure that the VirtualBox host kernel modules (vboxdrv, vboxnetflt and vboxnetadp) are properly updated if the linux kernel version changes during the next kernel update.
