[SOLVED] VirtualBox fails to install

alex4buba · 02-15-2024, 02:50 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pan64

you can blame oracle of even microsoft or apple for this, but that won't help.
you can split that command into two parts:

Code:

wget -O- https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc > /tmp/oracle_vbox_2016.asc
cat /tmp/oracle_vbox_2016.asc | sudo gpg --yes --output /usr/share/keyrings/oracle-virtualbox-2016.gpg --dearmor

does the first command (line) work?

You all good people, I had so many problems, what is all this about?
What was it supposed to rectify?

Please help me understand

Thank you all

wpeckham · 02-15-2024, 05:38 PM

Near as I can tell this will reinstall the ORACLE version and make things worse, but I am not about to try it to verify that.

enigma9o7 · 02-15-2024, 07:08 PM

If you are asking what happens when you add the oracle repo after you already installed their debfile, nothing interesting happens now. But when they update you'll get it as part of normal apt updates. Plus when/if they release 7.1 or 8.0 it'll be available for installation.

alex4buba · 02-15-2024, 08:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by enigma9o7

If you are asking what happens when you add the oracle repo after you already installed their debfile, nothing interesting happens now. But when they update you'll get it as part of normal apt updates. Plus when/if they release 7.1 or 8.0 it'll be available for installation.

Thanks for the info