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Installing RemoteBox on Ubuntu

Remotebox is a perl based VirtualBox client tool. It allows users to overlook and administer the
installation and configuration of virtualbox remotely over a network. You also get to control
that serveras if you had local access to it.

In other words, you oversee virtualbox on a remote server, by using RemoteBox your machine.

Remotebox comes with full GTK graphical interface, an interface that is similar to that of
VirtualBox’s native GUI.

Today’s tutorial will introduce RemoteBox to our readers. We will also see how to install
RemoteBox on a linux device, and see how it works.

RemoteBox Feature Highlights

 Works fine with VirtualBox on mainstream OS such as Windows and Mac OS as well as
solaris
 RemoteBox includes a client for VirtualBox with a GTK interface
 Whole thing’s made up in perl, so no compilation required.
 You can handle configurations remotely on virtualbox
 Independent of webserves such as IIS. You don’t need a webserver to use the program.
 Overlook and edit guest video display through RDP
 Supports USB devices their filters
 Configure guest BIOS configuration and image
 Change and configure guest’s netowrk settings
 Compatible with Linux, BSDs as well as MacOS.

Installing RemoteBox 2.7 on Ubuntu 20.04s

For those of you using ubuntu 20.04, just open the terminal and issue this command to add the
key to apt repository:

$wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

Then type out this ocmmand:

$sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu yakkety-getdeb apps" >>

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

Lastly, update the apt repostitory and install remotebox with the command below:
$sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install remotebox

In case you’re using Ubuntu 16.04, type in the command below:

$wget -q -O - http://archive.getdeb.net/getdeb-archive.key | sudo apt-key add -

$sudo sh -c 'echo "deb http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu xenial-getdeb apps" >>

/etc/apt/sources.list.d/getdeb.list'

$sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install remotebox

Deleting RemoteBox
If you want to get rid of RemoteBox, just type in the following command:

$sudo apt-get remove remotebox

Conclusion
This tutorial illustrated how to install RemoteBox on your Ubuntu 20.04 device. RemoteBox
allows us to use virtualbox on remote servers, and also facilitates its configuration and
installation.