Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Installing virtualbox 2.2.0 on ubuntu 8.10

To install virtualbox is fairly easy. Just follow the instructions below:

1. Open /etc/apt/sources.list and add this line deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian intrepid non-free

2. Import sun public-key and register it using apt-key (wget is for downloading, apt-key is for registering the key to your machine)
$
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O - | sudo apt-key add -
OK

3. Update your system's package index file
$ sudo apt-get update

4. Install virtualbox 2.2
$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-2.2

Done, that's all :)


3 comments:

Anonymous said...

didn't work for me.
wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O - |sudo apt-key add -
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.

blackorga said...

Hi Anonymous,

I've tested the command once more, and it worked. This is copied form my screen:
pingu@joan-desktop:~$ wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/sun_vbox.asc -O - |sudo apt-key add -
OK

Anonymous said...

download the oralce_vbox.asc with firefox then apt-key add oralce_vbox.asc