How To Install boinc-virtualbox on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-virtualbox on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is boinc-virtualbox
boinc-virtualbox is:
The Berkeley Open Infrastructure for Network Computing (BOINC) is a software platform for distributed computing: several initiatives of various scientific disciplines all compete for the idle time of desktop computers. The developers’ web site at the University of Berkeley serves as a common portal to the otherwise independently run projects.
Regular users (righteously) often find it an unbearable nuisance to care for the exact configuration of BOINC for virtualbox-based projects. This package adds a series of dependencies from the contrib section to the regular boinc package. This also meant this binary package to be redistributed in the contrib section of Debian.
There are three methods to install boinc-virtualbox on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install boinc-virtualbox Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install boinc-virtualbox using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install boinc-virtualbox
Install boinc-virtualbox Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install boinc-virtualbox using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install boinc-virtualbox
Install boinc-virtualbox Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install boinc-virtualbox using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install boinc-virtualbox
How To Uninstall boinc-virtualbox on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the boinc-virtualbox package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove boinc-virtualbox
Uninstall boinc-virtualbox And Its Dependencies
To uninstall boinc-virtualbox and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove boinc-virtualbox
Remove boinc-virtualbox Configurations and Data
To remove boinc-virtualbox configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge boinc-virtualbox
Remove boinc-virtualbox configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove boinc-virtualbox configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge boinc-virtualbox
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-virtualbox package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.