How To Install Virtualbox 4.2.20 On Fedora 19/18/17, OpenSUSE 12.2/11.4 And CentOS 6

Hello Linux Geeksters. As you may know, Virtualbox 4.3 has been released a while ago. For more information, see the official changelog.

In this article I will show you how to install Virtualbox 4.2.20 on Fedora 19, Fedora 18, Fedora 17, CentOS 6, OpenSUSE 12.2 and OpenSUSE 11.4.

In order to successfully install Virtualbox 4.2.20 on Fedora, CentOS and OpenSUSE systems, we have to download the needed rpm packages from the official site and install them with rpm. Follow the instructions for your system and architecture exactly and the installation should run smoothly.

How to install Virtualbox 4.2.20 on Fedora 19 and Fedora 18:

Instructions for 32 bit systems:

$ wget -c download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.20/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_fedora18-1.i686.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_fedora18-1.i686.rpm

Instructions for 64 bit systems:

$ wget -c download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.20/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_fedora18-1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_fedora18-1.x86_64.rpm

How to install Virtualbox 4.2.20 on Fedora 17:

Instructions for 32 bit systems:

$ wget -c download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.20/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_fedora17-1.i686.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_fedora17-1.i686.rpm

Instructions for 64 bit systems:

$ wget -c download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.20/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_fedora17-1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_fedora17-1.x86_64.rpm

How to install Virtualbox 4.2.20 on OpenSUSE 12.2 and OpenSUSE 11.4:

Instructions for 32 bit systems:

$ wget -c download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.20/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_openSUSE114-1.i586.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_openSUSE114-1.i586.rpm

Instructions for 64 bit systems:

$ wget -c download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.20/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_openSUSE114-1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_openSUSE114-1.x86_64.rpm

How to install Virtualbox 4.2.20 on CentOS 6:

Instructions for 32 bit systems:

$ wget -c download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.20/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_el6-1.i686.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_el6-1.i686.rpm

Instructions for 64 bit systems:

$ wget -c download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/4.2.20/VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_el6-1.x86_64.rpm
$ sudo rpm -i VirtualBox-4.2-4.2.20_90983_el6-1.x86_64.rpm