How To Install VirtualBox 4.1.14 in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin

Oracle VirtualBox is one of the best of it’s kind and powerful x86 and AMD64/Intel64 virtualization product  for home and enterprise customers.VirtualBox is available as an open source Software under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2 and it’s the best professional solution we got so far.VirtualBox was designed by Sun Microsystems and it’s a  community effort backed by a dedicated company named oracle.

VirtualBox can be installed on wide variety of operating systems that include Windows, Linux, Macintosh, and Solaris.Oracle recently pushed out the maintenance release version of Virtualbox 4.1.14 and it will improve stability and fixes regressions.

VirtualBox-4.1.14-ubuntu

Do you want to install VirtualBox in the latest Ubuntu 12.04  linux operating system code named Precise Pangolin ? then follow us !

Step 1 : Open the terminal window in your Ubuntu 12.04 .

Step 2 : Now add below command to add VirtualBox

wget -q http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian/oracle_vbox.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add

Step 3 :Once done,add the repository to Ubuntu 12.04 by executing below command in the terminal.

 sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian precise contrib" >> /etc/apt/sources.list'

Step 4: Now you can prepare your system and install Virtual box by executing one more command in the terminal window.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install virtualbox-4.1

Done ! Now setback and enjoy the best virtualisation product on the web right in your Ubuntu 12.04 precise Pangolin.

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