How To Install boinc-virtualbox on Ubuntu 22.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-virtualbox on Ubuntu 22.04. boinc-virtualbox is metapackage for virtualbox-savvy projects

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install boinc-virtualbox on Ubuntu 22.04.

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 22.04. 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 22.04

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 22.04, 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 22.04 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 22.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.