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Linux - Downloads - Oracle VirtualBox

This document provides instructions for downloading and installing VirtualBox for various Linux distributions, emphasizing the need for matching package architecture with the Linux kernel. It includes details on verifying package integrity using SHA256 checksums and instructions for adding repositories and keys for installation on different systems. Additionally, it offers troubleshooting steps for common issues encountered during installation.
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Linux - Downloads - Oracle VirtualBox

This document provides instructions for downloading and installing VirtualBox for various Linux distributions, emphasizing the need for matching package architecture with the Linux kernel. It includes details on verifying package integrity using SHA256 checksums and instructions for adding repositories and keys for installation on different systems. Additionally, it offers troubleshooting steps for common issues encountered during installation.
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Download VirtualBox for Linux Hosts


Note: The package architecture has to match the Linux kernel architecture, that is, if you are running a
64-bit kernel, install the appropriate AMD64 package (it does not matter if you have an Intel or an AMD
CPU). Mixed installations (e.g. Debian/Lenny ships an AMD64 kernel with 32-bit packages) are not
supported. To install VirtualBox anyway you need to setup a 64-bit chroot environment.

The VirtualBox base package binaries are released under the terms of the GPL version 3.

Please choose the appropriate package for your Linux distribution.

VirtualBox 7.1.10 for Linux

Oracle Linux 10 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10


Oracle Linux 9 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
Oracle Linux 8 / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Ubuntu 24.10
Ubuntu 24.04
Ubuntu 22.04
Ubuntu 20.04
Debian 12
Debian 11
openSUSE 15.6
openSUSE 15.3 / 15.4 / 15.5
Fedora 40 / 41
Fedora 36 / 37 / 38 / 39
All distributions (built on EL7 and therefore not requiring recent system libraries)

You might want to compare the checksums to verify the integrity of downloaded packages. The SHA256
checksums should be favored as the MD5 algorithm must be treated as insecure!

SHA256 checksums MD5 checksums

Oracle Linux
Users of Oracle Linux 7, 8 and 9 can use the Oracle Linux yum repository and enable the
ol7_developer channel for Oracle Linux 7, the ol8_developer channel for Oracle Linux 8, or the
ol9_developer channel for Oracle Linux 9.

This can be done with

yum install oraclelinux-developer-release-*

After that, do

yum install VirtualBox-7.0

to get the latest maintenance release of VirtualBox 7.0.x installed.

Debian-based Linux distributions


Add the following line to your /etc/apt/[Link] . For Debian 11 and older, replace ' <mydist> ' with
' bullseye ', ' buster ', or ' stretch '. For Ubuntu 22.04 and older, 'replace ' <mydist> ' with ' jammy ',
' eoan ', ' bionic ', ' xenial ',

deb [arch=amd64 signed-by=/usr/share/keyrings/[Link]] [Link] <mydist> contrib

The Oracle public key for verifying the signatures can be downloaded here. You can add these keys with

sudo gpg --yes --output /usr/share/keyrings/[Link] --dearmor oracle_vbox_2016.asc

or combine downloading and registering:

wget -O- [Link] | sudo gpg --yes --output /usr/share/keyrings/[Link] --dearmor

The key fingerprint for oracle_vbox_2016.asc is

B9F8 D658 297A F3EF C18D 5CDF A2F6 83C5 2980 AECF
Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key) <info@[Link]>

To install VirtualBox, do

sudo apt-get update


sudo apt-get install virtualbox-7.1

Replace virtualbox-7.1 by virtualbox-7.0 to install the latest VirtualBox 7.0 build.

What to do when experiencing The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG ... when refreshing
the packages from the repository?

# sudo -s -H
# apt-get clean
# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/*
# rm /var/lib/apt/lists/partial/*
# apt-get clean
# apt-get update

If you previously added the Oracle key(s) to your default keyring (now considered insecure), remove
them again with:

sudo apt-key remove 5CDFA2F683C52980AECF


sudo apt-key remove D9C954422A4B98AB5139

(As of VirtualBox 3.2, the signing key was changed. The old Sun public key for apt-secure can be
downloaded here. Likewise, the Oracle public key for distributions older than Debian 8 and Ubuntu
16.04 can be downloaded here.)

RPM-based Linux distributions


We provide a yum/dnf-style repository for Oracle Linux/Fedora/RHEL/openSUSE. All .rpm packages are
signed. The Oracle public key for rpm can be downloaded here. You can add this key (not normally
necessary, see below!) with

sudo rpm --import oracle_vbox_2016.asc

or combine downloading and registering:

wget -q [Link] -O- | rpm --import -

The key fingerprint is

B9F8 D658 297A F3EF C18D 5CDF A2F6 83C5 2980 AECF
Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key) <info@[Link]>

After importing the public key, the package signature can be checked with

rpm --checksig PACKAGE_NAME

Note that importing the key is not necessary for yum users (Oracle Linux/Fedora/RHEL/CentOS) when
using one of the [Link] files from below as yum downloads and imports the public key
automatically! Zypper users should run

zypper refresh

(As of VirtualBox 6.1.44/7.0.8, the same signing key as for Debian packages since 2016 is used. The
Oracle public key for older rpm packages and not updated repositories can be downloaded here.)

The package signature is checked by yum/dnf/zypper as well:

Users of Oracle Linux / RHEL can add the Oracle Linux repo file to /etc/[Link].d/.
Users of Fedora can add the Fedora repo file to /etc/[Link].d/.
Users of openSUSE can add the openSUSE repo file to /etc/zypp/repos.d/.

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