How to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 desktop machine?

How to install VirtualBox on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 desktop machine?

      If you have a host machine that runs Ubuntu Linux operating system, then you need to install VirtualBox to build and run virtual machines. Now, let's see how to do VirtualBox installation on Linux host machine.

# Install required system packages.
$ sudo apt install gcc make perl vim

# Download VirtualBox.
$ wget https://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/7.0.4/virtualbox-7.0_7.0.4-154605~Ubuntu~bionic_amd64.deb -P ~/Downloads

# Install VirtualBox.
$ sudo apt install ~/Downloads/virtualbox-7.0_7.0.4-154605~Ubuntu~bionic_amd64.deb

# Check VirtualBox version.
$ virtualbox --help

# Add host-only network configuration for VirtualBox.
$ sudo vim /etc/vbox/networks.conf
* 0.0.0.0/0 ::/0

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