How to install VirtualBox 4.3.10 on Xubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

The new version of VirtualBox 4.3.10 is now available for Linux system. This tutorial is going to show you how to install VirtualBox 4.3.10 on Xubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr. VirtualBox is a a general-purpose full virtualizer for x86 hardware, targeted at server, desktop and embedded use. You can run multiple operating systems on a single host.

How to install VirtualBox 4.3.10 on Xubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr

First we need to add VirtualBox repository to Xubuntu 14.04

sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list

Now add the following line to it

deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib

Now add the VirtualBox key and install it

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add –

Update Xubuntu 14.04

sudo apt-get update

Install VirtualBox

sudo apt-get install VirtualBox-4.3

dhani@dhani-xubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install VirtualBox-4.3
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
dkms fakeroot libaudio2 libfakeroot libmysqlclient18 libqt4-declarative libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4
libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 mysql-common qtcore4-l10n
Suggested packages:
dpkg-dev debhelper nas libqt4-declarative-folderlistmodel libqt4-declarative-gestures libqt4-declarative-particles libqt4-declarative-shaders qt4-qmlviewer libqt4-dev libicu48 qt4-qtconfig
The following NEW packages will be installed:
dkms fakeroot libaudio2 libfakeroot libmysqlclient18 libqt4-declarative libqt4-network libqt4-opengl libqt4-script libqt4-sql libqt4-sql-mysql libqt4-xml libqt4-xmlpatterns libqtcore4
libqtdbus4 libqtgui4 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 mysql-common qtcore4-l10n virtualbox-4.3
0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 93 not upgraded.
Need to get 80,4 MB of archives.
After this operation, 199 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y

Wait until the installation process is finished.  Done.

 

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