Install VirtualBox 5.1.14 (Latest) on Linux Ubuntu
VirtualBox or Oracle VirtualBox is an application that has the ability to run virtual machines on a main machine. That way, you can run or install an operating system on a virtual machine (indirectly) inside a main operating system that you are using.
For example, if you use the GNU/Linux operating system the Ubuntu distro on your computer. You can also use other operating systems on your computer such as the Windows operating system or other distributions of the GNU/Linux operating system in the Ubuntu distro that you are using. Of course, these other operating systems run virtually by creating a virtual machine using VirtualBox.
VirtualBox allows you to run multiple virtual machines on the application. These virtual running machines do not have real physical devices, only use virtual devices that you can set when running the virtual machine, the virtual hardware is taken from the system’s main hardware hardware resources.
There are several other applications such as VirtualBox that can run virtual machines, including Vmware and Microsoft Virtual PC. VirtualBox is an application open source and can be used for free. As one application open sourceVirtualBox is under the protection of GPL 2 or GNU General Public License version 2.
Even as an app open source and can be used for free, VirtualBox deserves to be called one of the best virtualization applications because it has many very useful features as a virtualization application and continues to be actively developed by improving existing features along with the addition of new features.
VirtualBox is an application cross platformwhich can be used for various platform or operating system. VirtualBox can be used on Windows, GNU/Linux, OS X, Solaris, OpenSolaris, OpenBSD and other operating systems.
The latest version of VirtualBox is VirtualBox 5.1.14 which was released on 17 January 2022. This version is release minor which is an improvement and improvement from the previous version of VirtualBox, namely VirtualBox 5.1. You can see Change Log from the VirtualBox release here.
Install VirtualBox 5.1.14 on Ubuntu
To install the latest version of VirtualBox, namely VirtualBox 5.1.14, you can install it using apt repository, so you will get a notification via Software Updater when the latest from VirtualBox is available.
But before installing the latest version of VirtualBox, make sure that there is no old version of VirtualBox installed on your computer. If you still have an old version of VirtualBox installed on your computer, you can remove it in the following way.
Open Terminal by pressing the keyboard combination / shortcuts CTRL + ALT + T or open Terminal via the application menu. Then enter the following command in Terminal to delete or remove the old version of VirtualBox:
sudo apt remove virtualbox virtualbox-5.0 virtualbox-4.*
Wait for the process remove or deletion of the application to completion. Then add apt repository from VirtualBox. Enter according to the Ubuntu version you are using. You cancopy the command and then do paste in Terminal by pressing the keyboard combination / shortcuts CTRL+SHIFT+V.
For Ubuntu 16.04 LTS:
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian xenial contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
For Ubuntu 15.10
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian wily contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
For Ubuntu 15.04
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian vivid contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
For Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list'
Once done, then download or add the public key from Oracle VirtualBox so that you can confirm to do download safely by using the following command:
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2022.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
Then do update repository to update repository and add the list of applications using the following command:
sudo apt-get update
Finally, install VirtualBox using the following command:
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.1
Wait for the installation process to finish and make sure it doesn’t happen error during the installation process.
Once the installation is complete, you can open VirtualBox via the Ubuntu Dash and start using VirtualBox.
