Remove the current virtualbox (6.x) packages when installed at all.
apt remove ---purge virtualbox
Since apt-key add using the /etc/apt/trusted.gpg file is deprecated use the following method using /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d directory.
wget -q -O - "https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox_2016.asc" | gpg --yes --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/oracle_vbox_2016.gpg
wget -q -O - "https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc" | gpg --yes --dearmor -o /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/oracle_vbox.gpg
Check if the keys were added using apt-key list | grep oracle_vbox and 2 must occur.
apt-add-repository --yes "deb [arch=amd64] https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/debian $(lsb_release -sc) contrib"
To remove the apt-repository just add the option --remove.
Update and install the virtualbox packages.
apt update # Not actually needed since apt-add-repository does it by default.
apt install virtualbox-7.0 virtualbox-ext-pack
¶ When using Ubuntu 22.04
When package
linux-image-generic-hwe-22.04is installed the header files are missing for the current kernel and result in
an errorNS_ERROR_FAILURE 0X80004005.
To fix this run the next command:apt install "linux-headers-$(uname -r)" virtualbox-7.0 virtualbox-dkms dkms && modprobe vboxdrv
apt install virtualbox-guest-additions-iso