Ubuntu 20.04 DEB

[KORG]

Hello,

Can you please share info regarding official virtualbox deb build for Ubuntu 20.04? Any ETA for release?

Thx

[scottgus1]

ETA is unknown, though it seems a couple months is normal.

[KORG]

Thx. Will install from official repos then. At least for now they provide latest available version

[Vadi2]

Would love one as well - this is an LTS release that's already out. Thanks a lot!

[KORG]

At the moment, Ubuntu 20.04 repos provide same version:

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# apt show virtualbox/focal
Package: virtualbox
Version: 6.1.6-dfsg-1
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/misc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Original-Maintainer: Debian Virtualbox Team <team+debian-virtualbox@tracker.debian.org>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 112 MB
Depends: adduser, iproute2, procps, virtualbox-dkms (>= 6.1.6-dfsg-1) | virtualbox-source (>= 6.1.6-dfsg-1) | virtualbox-modules, python3 (<< 3.9), python3 (>= 3.8~), python3.8, python3:any, libc6 (>= 2.28), libcurl3-gnutls (>= 7.16.2), libdevmapper1.02.1 (>= 2:1.02.97), libgcc-s1 (>= 3.0), libgl1, libgsoap-2.8.91, libopus0 (>= 1.1), libpng16-16 (>= 1.6.2-1), libpython3.8 (>= 3.8.2), libsdl1.2debian (>= 1.2.11), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.1), libstdc++6 (>= 5.2), libvncserver1 (>= 0.9.10), libvpx6 (>= 1.6.0), libx11-6, libxcursor1 (>> 1.1.2), libxml2 (>= 2.7.4), libxt6, zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4)
Recommends: virtualbox-qt (= 6.1.6-dfsg-1), libqt5core5a (>= 5.12.2), libqt5gui5 (>= 5.0.2) | libqt5gui5-gles (>= 5.0.2), libqt5opengl5 (>= 5.0.2), libqt5widgets5 (>= 5.0.2), libxcb1, libxext6
Suggests: vde2, virtualbox-guest-additions-iso
Conflicts: virtualbox-2.0, virtualbox-2.1, virtualbox-2.2, virtualbox-3.0, virtualbox-3.1, virtualbox-3.2, virtualbox-4.0, virtualbox-4.1, virtualbox-4.2, virtualbox-4.3, virtualbox-5.0, virtualbox-5.1, virtualbox-5.2, virtualbox-6.0, virtualbox-6.1
Homepage: https://www.virtualbox.org
Download-Size: 21,4 MB
APT-Sources: http://ua.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/multiverse amd64 Packages
Description: x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
 VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range
 of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a
 Linux system.
 .
 This package provides the binaries for VirtualBox. Either the virtualbox-dkms
 or the virtualbox-source package is also required in order to compile the
 kernel modules needed for virtualbox. A graphical user interface for
 VirtualBox is provided by the package virtualbox-qt.

[KORG]

Guys from virtualbox marked 19.10 build ready for 20.04 in downloads section. Seems this happened right after new 6.1.8 release.

https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
Ubuntu 19.10 / 20.04:

https://download.virtualbox.org/virtual ... _amd64.deb

[ajgreeny]

What is not mentioned very clearly in the details of how to add the repos to your /etc/apt/sources.list file is that even if using focal (20.04) the repository line still must say eoan or you will receive an error when running sudo apt update

I can assure you that the eoan version is working very well in focal with no difficulties at all.

[KORG]

What is not mentioned very clearly in the details of how to add the repos to your /etc/apt/sources.list file is that even if using focal (20.04) the repository line still must say eoan or you will receive an error when running sudo apt update

I can assure you that the eoan version is working very well in focal with no difficulties at all.

This is strange, because focal repository directory and all supporting files already exist and 'focal' (20.04) in repository configuration worked for me about ~2 hours ago.

[ajgreeny]

I wonder if they've added it very recently as I had error messages running

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sudo apt update

only two days ago (I think) and had to edit my sources.list file back to eoan.

Yes, that's what has happened.
I have just edited my sources.list back to focal and the update runs fine now, so it must be a very recent addition.
Either way all is now good!