vboxheadless command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

vboxheadless: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: vboxheadless: command not found

Solutions to vboxheadless: command not found

How To Fix vboxheadless: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu vboxheadless is provided by virtualbox package.

virtualbox is:

VirtualBox is a free x86 virtualization solution allowing a wide range of x86 operating systems such as Windows, DOS, BSD or Linux to run on a Linux system.

This package provides the binaries for VirtualBox. Either the virtualbox-dkms or the virtualbox-source package is also required in order to compile the kernel modules needed for virtualbox. A graphical user interface for VirtualBox is provided by the package virtualbox-qt.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install virtualbox

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install virtualbox.

sudo apt -y install virtualbox

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install virtualbox

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix vboxheadless command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.