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Install VirtualBox on Linux

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Install VirtualBox on Linux

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- [Instructor] If you happen to be using Linux as your host OS, you'll want to install Virtual Box for that operating system. If you're using Windows for your host OS, you can skip this video. We will be installing Virtual Box, but also installing a Virtual Box extension pack. Extension packs add additional functionality to Virtual Box. To install Virtual Box, we'll need to download it first from the Virtual Box website. Browse to virtualbox.org/wiki/downloads and hit enter. There are versions of Virtual Box for multiple operating systems. In this tutorial, I'm running a Linux computer, so I will download the Linux version by clicking on Linux distributions. After clicking on Linux distributions, you will get to be more specific about which distribution you're installing Virtual Box on. If your host OS was a boon to Debian, openSUSE or Fedora, you choose one of those links. Since I'm running Enterprise Linux 8, I…

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