
Mostly, VirtualBox is used for testing and development purposes. VirtualBox is used for installing and running multiple operating systems at the same time inside of a virtually created machine.


You can use apt-key to list fingerprints. Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key) The Oracle public key fingerprint is B9F8 D658 297A F3EF C18D 5CDF A2F6 83C5 2980 AECF

Next, run the following command to fetch and import the Oracle public key. (To save a file in Nano text editor, press Ctrl+O, then press Enter to confirm. If you are not using Ubuntu 18.04, then replace bionic by your distribution’s codename such as eoan (Ubuntu 19.10) and xenial (Ubuntu 16.04). sudo nano /etc/apt//virtualbox.listĪdd this line at the end of the file. sudo apt-get remove virtualboxĬreate a new source list file for the official Virtualbox repository with a command-line text editor, such as Nano. If you have already installed VirtualBox from the Ubuntu repository, remove it with the following command. If you like being on the bleeding edge, then you can install the latest version of Virtualbox on Ubuntu via Virtualbox official repository. However, you are not likely to get the latest and greatest version of Virtualbox using this installation method.

Ubuntu users can easily and quickly install the open-source Oracle Virtualbox from the Ubuntu repository.
