Unable to upgrade VirtualBox

[satimis]

Hi all,

VirtualBox 6.0
Host OS - Ubuntu 18.04

This is a spare desktop PC, having NOT been run for about a month. On starting VirtualBox I'm asked to upgrade to a new version of VirtualBox. On clicking to accept it finally a warning popup

The network operation failed with the following error: 
During network request: SSL authentication failed.

This is NOT the first time I'm asked to upgrade VirtualBox on this PC but it is my first time encountering this problem.

I have been searching a while on Internet discovering several links having similar problem. Please advise how to fix it.

Thanks

Regards
satimis

[halogen2]

What version of VirtualBox are you trying to upgrade to?
Does it work for you to manually download the new version from the official website, apt-get purge the existing VirtualBox, then install the new version?

[SeijiSensei]

Follow the procedure described here

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linu...xdistributions

to add Oracle's repository to your system. Next remove your current virtualbox installation with

sudo apt purge virtualbox

then install VB 6.1 with

sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1

Your system will upgrade VB automatically when needed just like it updates software in the Ubuntu repositories.

After you've finished and VB works as expected, install the Extension Pack: https://download.virtualbox.org/virt...8.vbox-extpack

[satimis]

Follow the procedure described here

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linu...xdistributions

to add Oracle's repository to your system. Next remove your current virtualbox installation with

sudo apt purge virtualbox

then install VB 6.1 with

sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1

Your system will upgrade VB automatically when needed just like it updates software in the Ubuntu repositories.

After you've finished and VB works as expected, install the Extension Pack: https://download.virtualbox.org/virt...8.vbox-extpack

Hi,

Thanks for your advice.

Performed following steps:-

$ sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list
That line is already there but being commented out.
Un-comment that line

Reboot PC

$ sudo apt purge virtualbox

Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package 'virtualbox' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

Very strange to me? Virtual Box is running on this PC

$ sudo dpkg -l | grep virtualbox

ii  virtualbox-6.0                             6.0.22-137980~Ubuntu~bionic                      amd64        Oracle VM VirtualBox

Is it a test-built version? How to remove it? Thanks

Regards
satimis

[satimis]

What version of VirtualBox are you trying to upgrade to?
Does it work for you to manually download the new version from the official website, apt-get purge the existing VirtualBox, then install the new version?

Thanks for your advice.

Running version 6.0
Upgrade it to version 6.1

Please see my reply to SeijiSensei's above. Tks

Regards
satimis

[ajgreeny]

You will need to run sudo apt purge virtualbox-6.0 to remove the version you already have.

Or simply run sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1 (assuming you really do have the VBox repos enabled as you say) and it will remove version 6.o and install 6.1 in its place.

Ypou might find using synaptic gives you a much clearer view of what you already have installed and what will happen when you try to add version 6.1.

[satimis]

You will need to run sudo apt purge virtualbox-6.0 to remove the version you already have.

Or simply run sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1 (assuming you really do have the VBox repos enabled as you say) and it will remove version 6.o and install 6.1 in its place.

Ypou might find using synaptic gives you a much clearer view of what you already have installed and what will happen when you try to add version 6.1.

Hi,

Thanks for your advice.

Performed following steps
- install synatic package manager
- start synatic package manager

On search, found virtualbox 6.1

Please see attached file "screenshot_synaptic.png"

What will be next step?
Do I need to select "volatility?

Whether following tutorial is applicable ?

SynapticHowto
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticHowto

Thanks

Regards
satimis

[SeijiSensei]

The package virtualbox-6.0 must have come from Oracle's website. The packages there have a version number attached to distinguish them from the version in the repositories which is always called just "virtualbox."

I rarely muck around with GUI package managers. I much prefer using the command line.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1

When you run "update" you should see the Oracle repository in the list.

[satimis]

The package virtualbox-6.0 must have come from Oracle's website. The packages there have a version number attached to distinguish them from the version in the repositories which is always called just "virtualbox."

I rarely muck around with GUI package managers. I much prefer using the command line.

sudo apt update
sudo apt install virtualbox-6.1

When you run "update" you should see the Oracle repository in the list.

Agreed, I usually install and/or upgrade packages on Terminal, running command lines.

This is my 1st time running synaptic to install/upgrade package. It is just for interest as well as for learning this software.

$ sudo apt update | grep virtualbox

WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.

Hit:8 https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian bionic InRelease

Regards

[ajgreeny]

The main reason I suggested using synaptic was because it gives you a clearer idea of all the package versions for virtualbox that are available, and allows you to see where they're from if you use the Origin filter in the left pane.

I'm not running bionic now and can't remember but I think the bionic repos from Oracle have both versions 6.0 and 6.1; Ubuntu's own repos had version 5 only if I remember correctly.
Focal now has versions 6.0 and 6.1 in its own repos and both are also from the Oracle repos, but the Oracle repo version is slightly ahead of the Ubuntu version and I have always found it to work better particularly when using the guest additions package also direct from Oracle.

I have no idea what that volatility package is or what it has to do with virtualbox. Did it show up when you searched for virtualbox in synaptic?
It is not even in the repos for focal so I've no idea what it is or what it does, but I do not think you need to install it.