VirtualBox is helps and powerful Cross-platform Virtualization Software, you can create and run multiple virtual machines in a computer at the same time. Its also possible to running different OS (Operating System) like Linux, Windows,Mac, etc. This software based on X86 system.
Open a apt sources.list file and add the following repository
# vim etc/apt/sources.list
Ubuntu 14.04
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian trusty contrib
Ubuntu 13.10
deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian saucy contrib
key:
Import the VirtualBox repository Public key to your system.
# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc
Saving to: ‘oracle_vbox.asc’
100%[==============================>] 1,734 6.25KB/s in 0.3s
2014-11-13 18:25:03 (6.25 KB/s) - ‘oracle_vbox.asc’ saved [1734/1734]
s# sudo apt-key add oracle_vbox.asc
OK
Install:
# apt-get update
# apt-get install virtualbox-4.3
# apt-get install virtualbox-4.3
Option 2:
Another Option is just download the backages from oracle and Install it.
# wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.3.18/virtualbox-4.3_4.3.18-96516~Ubuntu~raring_i386.deb
Length: 65053654 (62M) [application/x-debian-package]
Saving to: ‘virtualbox-4.3_4.3.18-96516~Ubuntu~raring_i386.deb’
100%[===========================>] 6,50,53,654 228KB/s in 9m 2s
2014-11-13 18:06:57 (117 KB/s) - ‘virtualbox-4.3_4.3.18-96516~Ubuntu~raring_i386.deb’ saved [65053654/65053654]
# dpkg --install virtualbox-4.3_4.3.18-96516~Ubuntu~raring_i386.deb
Error:
If you may received an error like below, require DKMS packages for virtualbox.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
virtualbox : Depends: libgsoap4 but it is not installable
Recommends: virtualbox-dkms (= 4.3.10-dfsg-1) but it is not going to be installed or
virtualbox-source (= 4.3.10-dfsg-1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: virtualbox-qt (= 4.3.10-dfsg-1) but it is not going to be installed
Recommends: libqt4-opengl (>= 4:4.5.3) but it is not installable
Run the below commands to remove unwanted packages and install again,
# sudo apt-get install linux-headers-generic build-essential dkms
# sudo apt-get remove --purge virtualbox-dkms
# sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms
# sudo apt-get remove --purge virtualbox-dkms
# sudo apt-get install virtualbox-dkms
How to Uninstall :
# dpkg --remove virtualbox-4.3
(Reading database ... 186655 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing virtualbox-4.3 (4.3.18-96516~Ubuntu~raring) ...
Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme (0.13-1) ...
Processing triggers for gnome-menus (3.10.1-0ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils (0.22-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for mime-support (3.54ubuntu1) ...
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