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VirtualBox 6.1.6 for Linux All distributions does not work, but opens the .run file in text format

I assume you mean you want to execute the .run file, not download it.

In general, Linux distros do not natively know what to do with a .run file, so just open it as the text file it is. You (the User) have to specifically instruct the Linux Distro to execute the file rather than open it in a Text Editor. How you do that depends on the specific Linux Distro, but see: https://howtoubuntu.org/how-to-execute- ... -in-ubuntu, which describes how to do it in Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros. VirualBox Guest Additions will require Root privileges, so use the 'sudo' option mentioned.

I want to download the .run file and then execute it
Just like I did in all the previous version

Click 'All Distributions' on https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads to see what happens

Tried and the solution appears to be: Right-Click on the link and select 'Download Linked File'. When the download completes delete the final '.txt ' extention from the file name Looks like 'they' probably forgot to put it in a 'zip' file.

If there appears a '.txt' at the end of the downloaded file that is a problem with your local web browser.
The link and the file on the download server end correctly in '.run'.

multiOS wrote:Tried and the solution appears to be: Right-Click on the link and select 'Download Linked File'. When the download completes delete the final '.txt ' extention from the file name Looks like 'they' probably forgot to put it in a 'zip' file.

Ok. Ιt works. Not exactly as described but it works. Thanks