Successful VirtualBox installation in Fedora 24

Operating Systems & Open Source Linux
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2016-08-30
Fedora 24
Kernel 4.7.2-201.fc24.x86_64

I counldn't get any version of VirtualBox downloaded from virtualbox.org to
work properly.

HowTo install 5.0.26_RPMFusion r108824
http://rpmfusion.org/Howto/VirtualBox?highlight=%28CategoryHowto%29

dnf install
http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E
%fedora).noarch.rpm

dnf update --refresh

dnf install VirtualBox kernel-devel-$(uname -r) akmod-VirtualBox akmods

Replace "username" with the account of the person to give access.
usermod -a -G vboxusers "username"

Download the appropriate Extension Pack from virtualbox.org and install
it.

Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager > File > Preferences > Extensions

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That looks so complicated...

Just do:

sudo wget http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/fedora/virtualbox.repo -O /etc/yum.repos.d/vbox.repo

sudo dnf install VirtualBox-5.1

Then as you said

Download the appropriate Extension Pack from virtualbox.org and install
it.

Oracle VM VirtualBox Manager > File > Preferences > Extensions

3

Thank you very much.
History has proven you know your Linux, but I've spent so much time trying to get VirtualBox working, I'm going to use it (v5.0.26) as is for awhile.
I appreciate the feedback though.

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Some of the things are just trial and error and some are getting new info. Next time try out the repo directly from virtualbox youll find it works better for you (and is up to date). My path was the same as yours.