Can you provide me the link to this option? How exactly do I do that?
So it’s not a bug? Then why is Patrick here telling me it’s a bug?
So it downgrading from VB 7.1 to 7.0 was not a bug?
So someone here is telling me it’s a bug and then another guy is saying it worked as intended. I mean can you guys reach a consensus on this?
So it isn’t a bug and that was supposed to happen? It was indeed supposed to downgrade from Virtualbox 7.1 to 7.0?
You guys need to reach a consensus on this.
So it is a bug?
I’m literally hearing different things from different people.
bash ./whonix-xfce-installer-cli --oracle-repo
A matter of interpretation, word definition.
It became a bug because you’re not stopping bugging about it.
Often in life you need to form your own opinions.
That’s life. Get used to it.
You need to stop stressing about what some commentor somewhere in the internet is saying.
The developer just told you in detail.
What else do you need.
Since you keep making this a big thing I am happy to concede and say.
Yes, bug.
From what I am reading here, yes it is a bug. But no, you do not really need to worry about it.
So here soon I’m going to reinstall Ubuntu 24.04 LTS on my PC and that means I’ll be reinstalling virtualbox. This tutorial right here is how I install virtualbox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzRY_pF6KZM&list=LL&index=63 I download VB directly from the VB website and install it that way. I’ve tried other ways to install VB that just didn’t work for me but that tutorial is the one that finally worked for me.
Has this bug been fixed yet? Is my VirtualBox going to get downgraded to an older version again?
Duplicate of:
No. If it has been, it will be posted here.
If you use --oracle-repo option, this should not happen.
So what is that?
A command line option for whonix-xfce-installer-cli.
It uses Oracle’s (virtualbox.org) repository for downloading VirtualBox.
How to use it? Was already answered above.
So yeah I think I’ve got this figured out here, so what was happening was, when I installed Whonix, my VirtualBox would get downgraded to the VirtualBox that is included in Ubuntu 24.04’s repository which is VirtualBox 7.0.16 and so I’ll have to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS when it comes out in order to get a newer version of VirtualBox.
It looks like Whonix only wants to work with the VirtualBox that’s included in the Ubuntu repository. Not the latest and greatest VB but the VB that’s in Ubuntu’s repository and the repository only gets updated every 2 years with each new LTS release.
So do I understand this correctly?
Did you try --oracle-repo option?
Ok explain to me in layman’s terms. So how exactly do I install Whonix on Ubuntu 24.04? Lay it out for me. Tell me step by step how to do this?
Cause this is how I do it, first I do
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Then I do
sudo apt install virtualbox
Then I install curl by doing
sudo apt install curl
And then I go to the Whonix website and follow their instructions Whonix Linux Installer for VirtualBox
And that’s how I install Whonix on Ubuntu and it works. I’ve tried so many tutorials that didn’t work.
So you’re telling me there is a way to install VirtualBox and NOT have VirtualBox revert back to VirtualBox 7.0.16? How exactly?
Can you just tell me what exactly I need to do in layman’s terms? I’m not a computer expert, please understand this. I am a newbie and if you don’t hold my hand and walk me through this and thoroughly explain everything then I’ll get confused. Linux is not easy. Linux is not straight forward. Linux has a learning curve to it, and I say this as a lifelong Windows user.
So how exactly do I install VirtualBox and Whonix on Ubuntu 24.04? Tell me step by step how to do this, explain it to me in layman’s terms so I can understand this?
Ok so I’m on this page here VirtualBox Installer for Linux and I see this here command
curl --tlsv1.3 --output virtualbox-installer --url https://www.kicksecure.com/dist-installer-cli
And on that same page under “Additional Features” I see:
Download from Oracle Repository: When using --oracle-repo command line option, downloads VirtualBox from Oracle repository. This is the default for Fedora-based distributions. It’s optional for Debian-based ones (including Ubuntu) but may be set by developers in the future if the Debian repository discontinues the VirtualBox package. The Oracle repository might at times provide a newer VirtualBox version.
But I don’t see --oracle-repo in that command above. I don’t know what I’m doing.
So why don’t you just tell me in layman’s terms exactly what I need to do? I would like to use the latest and greatest VirtualBox but I need someone to be kind and tell me exactly what I need to do.
Where is this command line option exactly? I don’t see it.
You’ve been told already. But then you appear to skip over it and ask the same thing again.
You are supposed to add it to the command line. It’s optional. You should add it to the command line. If you don’t add it, it won’t happen.
Here
So first you do
curl --tlsv1.3 --output virtualbox-installer --url https://www.kicksecure.com/dist-installer-cli
and then you do
bash ./whonix-xfce-installer-cli --oracle-repo
Is this what you do?
curl --tlsv1.3 --output whonix-xfce-installer-cli --url https://www.whonix.org/dist-installer-cli
bash ./whonix-xfce-installer-cli --oracle-repo
Or equivalent with virtualbox-installer. Depending on what you want to install.
Whonix + VirtualBox: whonix-xfce-installer-cli
VirtualBox only: virtualbox-installer
But you cannot mix those.
If you download virtualbox-installer you cannot execute whonix-xfce-installer-cli.
I want to install both virtualbox and whonix so what is the command to do this?
I am not an expert and I’m on the verge of pulling my hair out!
Tell me exactly the command I need to enter?
Dude you’ve got me wanting to pull my hair out.
So I want to install both virtualbox and whonix so what commands do I need to enter and in what order do I enter them?
Will you just tell me?
Hey, you tell me what to do and then I’ll go make a “How to install Whonix on Ubunt and Mint tutorial” on Reddit so all the other newbies can just follow my tutorial so they don’t get confused. I’m a newbie and I know how to write tutorials so that other newbies can understand them.
Some of you computer experts just don’t know how to speak to us newbies. But as a newbie myself I know how to speak to other newbies.
I want to install both VirtualBox and whonix so what commands do I enter? And in what order do I enter them? That’s it dude, that’s all you have to tell me and then I’ll go over to Reddit and create my tutorial so I can explain it to all the other newbies.
Cause check it out, when you go on Google and search “how to install whonix on Ubuntu” this tutorial right here pops up at the very top of the search results https://www.reddit.com/r/Whonix/comments/1dxk1gn/how_to_install_whonix_on_linux_ubuntu_mint_etc/ and I’m the one who made that tutorial. And I’m going to make a new one that is more up to date.
But first I need to figure out the right way to install VirtualBox and Whonix so will you just tell me what I need to do?
So yes I want to install both VirtualBox and Whonix so am I supposed to enter
curl --tlsv1.3 --output whonix-xfce-installer-cli --url https://www.whonix.org/dist-installer-cli
and then enter
bash ./whonix-xfce-installer-cli --oracle-repo
Is this what I’m supposed to do in order to install both VirtualBox and Whonix on Ubuntu 24.04?
Once I understand this I’ll go over to Reddit and make a new tutorial with current up to date information, but you gotta help me.
Please help me? Just tell me what I need to do?