[SOLVED] VirtualBox offline installer for 32-bit Debian Bullseye

stameni · 09-12-2022, 12:53 PM

I need an offline installer of VirtualBox for 32-bit Debian Bullseye.

There are only 64-bit versions at the official website in the download section (https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads), so I guess that 32-bit is no longer supported.

If that is the case, can someone point me to some older VirtualBox version?

michaelk · 09-13-2022, 07:37 AM

32 bit VB is not longer supported. You can try the 5.2.44 release for all distributions or if that does not work try compiling from source.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_2

boughtonp · 09-13-2022, 08:49 AM

If the 32-bit aspect is more important than VirtualBox part, then KVM+QEMU may be an option?

(If the machine is permanently offline, apt-offline should help with downloading/installing dependencies.)

stameni · 09-13-2022, 10:36 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by michaelk

32 bit VB is not longer supported. You can try the 5.2.44 release for all distributions or if that does not work try compiling from source.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Download_Old_Builds_5_2

5.2.44 will fully fit my needs, thanks.

However, is something wrong with my Firefox? Whichever release for all distribution I choose, 32-bit or 64-bit, no matter the version, my download doesn't start. All I get is a blank window.

This happens only with releases for all distributions; downloads for specific distribution start normally.

Can you try downloading 5.2.44 32-bit all distributions?

michaelk · 09-13-2022, 11:10 AM

I did not pay attention, the "all distributions" download is the installer shell script.
On my system it displays as text in a web page. I guess it depends on how your Firefox is configured.

boughtonp · 09-13-2022, 11:46 AM

Here, the "all distributions" 32-bit link is a ~79MB file which Firefox offers as a file download.

Code:

$ curl -ISs 'https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/5.2.44/VirtualBox-5.2.44-139111-Linux_x86.run'
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Type: text/plain
ETag: "378a4ed6560b355fcc3834fdfd9163d3:1594736395.300357"
Last-Modified: Fri, 10 Jul 2020 08:20:28 GMT
Server: AkamaiNetStorage
Content-Length: 83066319
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 16:40:00 GMT
Connection: keep-alive

Since the type is set to text/plain some clients will try and display it as text and I guess blank screen is because it takes time to download that much.

Right click and select "Save Link As" to download the file (or use curl or wget with -O to download).

stameni · 09-13-2022, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by boughtonp

Right click and select "Save Link As" to download the file (or use curl or wget with -O to download).

This hint has solved my VirtualBox problem. Thank you very much!