Written on December 27, 2010 at 11:49 am by

Updating VirtualBox to the Newer Version on Ubuntu

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UPDATE :
This method also work for installing VirtualBox 4.0.2

Earlier we saw how to install VirtualBox-3.2 on Ubuntu. Updating the same to the newer version require to add repositery

To install VirtualBox 4 on Ubuntu you need to add its repository

echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian maverick contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

You need to install apt-secure key for VirtualBox

cd /tmp
wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
apt-key add oracle_vbox.asc

To install VirtualBox, do

apt-get update
apt-get install virtualbox-4.0
apt-get install dkms

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