How to Install and Uninstall boinc-virtualbox Package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Last updated: May 14,2024

1. Install "boinc-virtualbox" package

This guide covers the steps necessary to install boinc-virtualbox on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
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2. Uninstall "boinc-virtualbox" package

This tutorial shows how to uninstall boinc-virtualbox on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla):


    
        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the boinc-virtualbox package on Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla)

Package: boinc-virtualbox
Architecture: amd64
Version: 7.16.15+dfsg.is.7.16.11+dfsg-1
Priority: optional
Section: multiverse/misc
Source: boinc
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers
Original-Maintainer: Debian BOINC Maintainers
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 93
Depends: boinc-client
Recommends: virtualbox | virtualbox-6.1 | virtualbox-6.0 | virtualbox-5.2 | virtualbox-5.1 | virtualbox-5.0, virtualbox-ext-pack
Filename: pool/multiverse/b/boinc/boinc-virtualbox_7.16.15+dfsg.is.7.16.11+dfsg-1_amd64.deb
Size: 15472
MD5sum: f93dc7d69575ffcda6ea6040983396d5
SHA1: deb8f55118544a29b070cae2a76b92c32c4931da
SHA256: faedf8bd4c57b0b82b532cbed79908b487c42b0e035063b1aa535586b1c75ce2
SHA512: 6a0002f0f448aac465dca5a00d7ecbc830ca0ded136d73f5d3525d9c82a2a390c28d1048d5abc8249e11032ebdf4af01700cb14bdb9aaa0e4f5b83d920b71f1b
Homepage: https://boinc.berkeley.edu/
Description-en: metapackage for virtualbox-savvy projects
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.
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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.
Description-md5: 690093958a0070907b98b36b21fb062c