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The document provides instructions for installing VirtualBox 6.1 on different Linux distributions. For Oracle Linux, users can enable the ol6_developer or ol7_developer channel and run yum install to get VirtualBox 6.1. For Debian, users add a deb line to sources.list, download signing keys, and run apt-get install. For RPM-based systems, instructions are similar but use yum instead of apt.

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Oracle Linux: Repository Ol6 - Developer Ol7 - Developer

The document provides instructions for installing VirtualBox 6.1 on different Linux distributions. For Oracle Linux, users can enable the ol6_developer or ol7_developer channel and run yum install to get VirtualBox 6.1. For Debian, users add a deb line to sources.list, download signing keys, and run apt-get install. For RPM-based systems, instructions are similar but use yum instead of apt.

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Oracle Linux

Users of Oracle Linux 6 and 7 can use the Oracle Linux yum  repository and enable
the  ol6_developer channel for Oracle Linux 6 or the  ol7_developer channel for Oracle
Linux 7. After that, do

yum install VirtualBox-6.1

to get the latest maintenance release of VirtualBox 6.1.x installed.

Debian-based Linux distributions

Add the following line to your /etc/apt/sources.list. According to your distribution,


replace '<mydist>' with 'eoan', 'bionic', 'xenial', 'buster', 'stretch', or 'jessie' (older
versions of VirtualBox supported different distributions):

deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian


<mydist> contrib

The Oracle public key for apt-secure can be downloaded

 here for Debian 8 ("Jessie") / Ubuntu 16.04 ("Xenial") and later


 here for older distributions.

You can add these keys with

sudo apt-key add oracle_vbox_2016.asc

sudo apt-key add oracle_vbox.asc

or combine downloading and registering:

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc -O-


| sudo apt-key add -

wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- |


sudo apt-key add -

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)


<[email protected]>

The key fingerprint for oracle_vbox.asc is

7B0F AB3A 13B9 0743 5925 D9C9 5442 2A4B 98AB 5139
Oracle Corporation (VirtualBox archive signing key)
<[email protected]>

(As of VirtualBox 3.2, the signing key was changed. The old Sun public key for apt-
secure can be downloaded    here.)

To install VirtualBox, do

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-6.1

Replace virtualbox-6.1 by virtualbox-6.0 or virtualbox-5.2 to install the latest


VirtualBox 6.0 or 5.2 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

RPM-based Linux distributions

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