How to upgrade Virtualbox in Ubuntu or other GNU+Linux Debian Distro using Command Line Interface (CLI)

   In this post, I will share on how to upgrade Virtualbox in Ubuntu or other GNU+Linux Debian Distro . Upgrading Virtualbox will not effect any of your existing Virtual Machine performance.

This post, is in reference to the guide in Virtualbox homepage .I edit some command to make it easy for other Debian user .


What will be covered in this tutorial.

1. Check Virtualbox current version and remove from the system.
2. Update Virtualbox path in Ubuntu/Debian sources list .
3. Download and register Oracle Public Key .
4. Update and Install latest Virtualbox.
5. Check Virtualbox latest version .

Steps

1) Check Virtualbox current version and remove from the system.


orca@PositiveSpace:~$VBoxManage --version

Virtualbox Version

 1.2) Remove existing Virtualbox.

orca@PositiveSpace:~$sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-4.3

Remove existing Virtualbox

2) Update Virtualbox path in Ubuntu/Debian sources list .


2.1) Update Ubuntu or other Debian Sources list file for future update . "(lsb_release -cs)" command will give your distro version.

orca@PositiveSpace:~$sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -cs) contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

update Ubuntu/Debian Sources list 

2.2) Check "/etc/apt/sources.list"

orca@PositiveSpace:~$cat /etc/apt/sources.list

3) Download and register Oracle Public Key .

orca@PositiveSpace:~$wget -q https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

4)Update and Install latest Virtualbox.

4.1) Update the system .

orca@PositiveSpace:~$sudo apt-get update

update the system

 4.2) Install latest Virtualbox

orca@PositiveSpace:~$sudo apt-get install virtualbox-5.0

Install latest Virtualbox

5) Check Virtualbox latest version .

 5.1) Once finish installed,Go to system launcher and look for Virtualbox.

5.2) Check the latest version of virtualbox under "help"