How to Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04

In this article you are going to learn how to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04 step by step. Oracle’s VirtualBox is a free utility that allows you to run a virtual operating system on your computer. It is an alternative to VMware workstation player and other virtualization software out there.

You may use a single machine as a host computer with VirtualBox and other virtualization technologies. You can then construct numerous independent guest computers within the virtualization software, each with its own operating system.

How to Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04

There methods below can be used to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04;

Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04 using DEB Binary package:
- Using GUI method
- Using Terminal method
Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04 using APT

Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04 using DEB Binary package via GUI method

Navigate to VirtualBox website and click on the latest Ubuntu version link to download installer for VirtualBox

After clicking a window will pop up prompting you to save the installer. Select Save File and then click OK button to save the installer on your computer.

You will find the installer file in the downloads folder.

Double click the file to launch it, On the software installer window that appears click install button to begin the installation of VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04. Note, You will be required to enter your password for the installation to take place.

When installation percentage reaches 100%, VirtualBox will have been installed on your Ubuntu system. You can launch it from the application menu by searching it.

Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04 using DEB Binary package via Terminal method

VirtualBox can also be installed from DEB Binary using terminal. Run the command below to obtain the DEB file.

wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.32/virtualbox-6.1_6.1.32-149290~Ubuntu~eoan_amd64.deb

Then run the command below to install the package. Note, it’s preferred to use apt so that it can fix any dependency issues

sudo apt install ./virtualbox-6.1_6.1.32-149290~Ubuntu~eoan_amd64.deb

Sample Output

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'virtualbox-6.1' instead of './virtualbox-6.1_6.1.32-149290~Ubuntu~eoan_amd64.deb'
The following additional packages will be installed:
  libdouble-conversion3 libpcre2-16-0 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5svg5
  libqt5widgets5 libqt5x11extras5 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libxcb-xinput0 qt5-gtk-platformtheme qttranslations5-l10n
Suggested packages:
  qt5-image-formats-plugins qtwayland5
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  libdouble-conversion3 libpcre2-16-0 libqt5core5a libqt5dbus5 libqt5gui5 libqt5network5 libqt5opengl5 libqt5printsupport5 libqt5svg5
  libqt5widgets5 libqt5x11extras5 libsdl-ttf2.0-0 libsdl1.2debian libxcb-xinput0 qt5-gtk-platformtheme qttranslations5-l10n virtualbox-6.1
0 upgraded, 17 newly installed, 0 to remove and 10 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/10.7 MB of archives.
After this operation, 267 MB of additional disk space will be used.
W: Repository is broken: virtualbox-6.1:amd64 (= 6.1.32-149290~Ubuntu~eoan) has no Size information
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] y
...

You can now launch VirtualBox from the application menu or by typing the command below

virtualbox

Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04 from APT Repos

Run the command below to install VirtualBox On Ubuntu 22.04 from APT repos. Please note that there are currently no VirtualBox repos released for Ubuntu 22.04. Hence, we use repos for Ubuntu 20.04.

echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian focal contrib" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/virtualbox.list

Then get the repository signing keys using the following commands.

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 -

System package cache should be updated.

sudo apt update

Run the command below to install

sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1

Install VirtualBox Extension Pack

Run the command below to download VirtualBox extension pack.

wget -P /tmp https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/6.1.32/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.32.vbox-extpack

Then install it using the command below

sudo VBoxManage extpack install /tmp/Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.32.vbox-extpack

Uninstall VirtualBox

To remove VirtualBox, run the command below.

sudo apt remove --purge --auto-remove virtualbox-6.1 -y

sudo apt remove --purge --auto-remove virtualbox -y

Congratulations you have reached the end of the article. You have learned how to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04

How to Install VirtualBox on Ubuntu 22.04