How do I install VirtualBox application on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux LTS system?

VirtualBox is an opensource and free full virtualization software for AMD64/Intel64/x86. The software is available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2. Hence, we can directly install VirtualBox using an apt repository on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. This application supports many guests operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, Linux distros, FreeBSD/OpenBSD/NetBSD, Solaris Unix, and much more.

Installing VirtualBox on Ubuntu 20.04 Linux LTS system

First, update your apt repo, run the following apt command/apt-get command. Open the Terminal application and then type:

$ sudo apt update

$ sudo apt upgrade

We need to install the following packages:

1. virtualbox : Base binaries
2. virtualbox-ext-pack : Enable capabilities for VirtualBox
3. virtualbox-dkms : Linux kernel module source code for dkms
4. virtualbox-guest-additions-iso : guest additions iso image for VirtualBox
5. virtualbox-qt : Qt based user interface GUI for creating Virtual Machines (Guest VM)
6. virtualbox-guest-utils : non-X11 CLI guest utilities
7. virtualbox-guest-x11 :X11 guest utilities

Let us install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS system:

$ sudo apt install virtualbox \

virtualbox-ext-pack \

virtualbox-dkms \

virtualbox-guest-additions-iso \

virtualbox-qt \

virtualbox-guest-utils \

virtualbox-guest-x11

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