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Amul Bhatia
Asked: 2016-03-12 23:38:54 +0800 CST

Not able to install Virtual box in Ubuntu

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I followed this Ask Ubuntu guide, I manually downloaded virtual box from this link and tried to install like: 

$ dpkg -i virtualbox-5.0_5.0.16-105871~Ubuntu~trusty_amd64.deb

But no success, I got this error:

    dpkg: error processing package virtualbox-5.0 (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for systemd (219-7ubuntu6) ...
Processing triggers for ureadahead (0.100.0-19) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.14-0ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for shared-mime-info (1.3-1) ...
Unknown media type in type 'all/all'
Unknown media type in type 'all/allfiles'
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu5) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu3) ...
Processing triggers for bamfdaemon (0.5.1+15.04.20150202-0ubuntu1) ...
Rebuilding /usr/share/applications/bamf-2.index...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.58ubuntu1) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 virtualbox-5.0

I got the Oracle Virtual box icon in applications, when i click, it does not open, so geny motion does not recognize any virtual box, so it could not start as well.

Please help me. I have already used 

sudo apt-get remove --purge virtualbox*
sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib"
wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

No success. What am I doing wrong?

  • Ubuntu 15.04
  • Java version javac 1.8.0_74
apt

3 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Although Ubuntu 15.04 is not supported anymore, you can install VirtualBox this way :

    First completely remove all traces from the previous VirtualBox installation attempts. 

    sudo apt-get purge "^virtualbox-.*"

    Download and register the ORACLE public key. 

    wget -q -O - https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc | sudo apt-key add -

    Add the VirtualBox repository to the sources.

    echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian vivid contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/oracle-vbox.list

    Update the repositories : 

    sudo apt-get update

    Install VirtualBox 5.0 : 

    sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

    Note for other users reading this answer, in case they use another Ubuntu edition as 15.04 :

    You have to replace vivid with the Ubuntu edition you are using when adding the repository !

    As of Ubuntu 16.04 the ORACLE public key to download and register has changed :

    oracle_vbox.asc has to be replaced with oracle_vbox_2016.asc !

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  2. Download the .deb file from here and then run

    sudo dpkg -i <downloaded_file_name>

    That should fix your issues

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  3. I would not go for AMD package.

    1. Type uname -a in command line.
      OUTPUT:
      Linux christopher 3.13.0-24-generic #47-Ubuntu SMP Fri May 2 23:31:42 UTC 2014 i686 i686 i686 GNU/Linux
    2. I know AMD is not the one.
    3. Go to this page and select the i386 version
    4. Download and install
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