How to install Virtualbox on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS Precise Pangolin

posted on May 24, 2012 in HowTo, Linux with 14 Comments

1. Download and install Oracle’s public key.

danesh@python:~$ wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -

2. Create a repo file for Virtualbox

danesh@python:~$ sudo -s echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib" >> ~/virtualbox.list

danesh@python:~$ sudo mv ~/virtualbox.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/

3. Install Virtualbox

danesh@python:~$ sudo apt-get update

danesh@python:~$ sudo apt-get install dkms

danesh@python:~$ sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1

Enjoy.

Lloyd

Minor omission, step 3 second command should be:

sudo apt-get install dkms
Eric draven

Everything here works exsept this one line “sudo apt-get dkms”. I get “invalid operation” but other than that this works.

UBUNTU 12.04LTS 64 Bit
intel i7
6GB RAM
750GB HDD
Danesh

Thanks for spotting that Lloyd, updated the line.
ralph nicole

guys, can you help me, i need to install virtualbox in my ubuntu linux 12.04 but when I typed the first line of code given in this web page tutorial, I got a message in my terminal saying : “gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.” what should I do?
- kukori
  
  set the proxy (http,https,ftp,socket) in /etc/wgetrc file
Michael Bo

That worked Great…
Can you show how to install the…

Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack

Thanks for all the advise!
aki

Thanks. This page also gives valuable info.

http://cybrwrld.blogspot.com/2012/10/feel-ubuntu-ubuntu-on-virtual-box.html
danieltellez

Not working for me… :-S Neither other solutions I have found googling. My errors with your solution:

* Trying to register the VirtualBox kernel modules using DKMS Error! Your kernel headers for kernel 3.5.0-18-generic cannot be found.
Please install the linux-headers-3.5.0-18-generic package,
or use the –kernelsourcedir option to tell DKMS where it’s located

* Failed, trying without DKMS
* Recompiling VirtualBox kernel modules
* Look at /var/log/vbox-install.log to find out what went wrong

Some idea ? Thank you very much in advance !!
- Danesh
  
  try “sudo apt-get install kernel-headers” first
  - danieltellez
    
    Solved. My problem was I had 3.5.0-17 instead of 3.5.0-18 headers. I solved enabling “Recommended updates” to let Ubuntu download 3.5.0-18 headers. All is working like a charm now. Thanks Danesh for your response.
Edan

I’m getting this message – no valid OpenPGP data found, when I tried to download the public key
Simon Zafiu

Thanks ! Works perfect !
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Nerella Thirupathi

Hi Danesh, i got the following error when i have execiuted the command “sudo apt-get install dkms”

Error message :
The hostname -f command returned: $1

Your system needs to have a fully qualified domain name (fqdn) in
order to install the var-qmail packages.

Installation aborted.

dpkg: error processing qmail (–configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of qmail-run:
qmail-run depends on qmail (>= 1.06-2.1); however:
Package qmail is not configured yet.
dpkg: error processing qmail-run (–configure):
dependency problems – leaving unconfigured
Setting up dkms (2.2.0.3-1ubuntu3.2) …
No apport report written because the error message indicates its a followup error from a previous failure.
Setting up fakeroot (1.18.2-1) …
update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/fakeroot-sysv to provide /usr/bin/fakeroot (fakeroot) in auto mode.
Errors were encountered while processing:
qmail
qmail-run
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

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