Installing Virtualbox

Note: this applies only for Trisquel 6.

Trisquel Menu > Accessories > Terminal

Copy and paste each one of these lines into the terminal one at a time and hit enter at the end of each pasted line:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get remove virtualbox virtualbox-ose --purge
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose
sudo aptitude install linux-generic
sudo adduser $USER vboxusers
After you have run these lines in terminal log out and log back in.

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Virtualbox is not included in Trisquel 7.0 as the newer versions (from 4.2 on) depend on the non-free open watcom compiler. You might be interested in using e.g. KVM.

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