New Virtualbox version, script for easy update of extension pack

March 14, 2012March 14, 2012Ryanbash, extpack, virtualbox

VirtualBox 4.1.10 was released yesterday with a few nice things in the changelog. Updating virtualbox itself is easy, just download the package and update it. Since I seem to stumble over the update of the extension pack every time (on my headless system) I thought I’d write a small script this time so I don’t have to rethink it next time (automatically downloads and installs the current extpack):

#!/bin/bash
URL="$(wget -qO - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads|grep "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack"|sed "s/.\+\(http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org.\+.vbox-extpack\).\+/\1/")"
File=${URL##*/}

if [[ "${URL}" != "" &amp;&amp; "${File}" != "" ]]
then
  echo "Downloading and installing ${File}" &amp;&amp; \
  wget -qO ${File} ${URL} &amp;&amp; \
  VBoxManage extpack install --replace ${File}
fi

#!/bin/bash

URL="$(wget -qO - https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads|grep "Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack"|sed "s/.\+$http:\/\/download.virtualbox.org.\+.vbox-extpack$.\+/\1/")"

File=${URL##*/}

if [[ "${URL}" != "" && "${File}" != "" ]]

then

echo "Downloading and installing ${File}" && \

wget -qO ${File} ${URL} && \

VBoxManage extpack install --replace ${File}

2 thoughts on “New Virtualbox version, script for easy update of extension pack”

How about using the ‘LATEST.TXT’:
http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/LATEST.TXT

#!/bin/bash
echo "Fetching latest Version"
Version=`wget -qO - http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/LATEST.TXT|cat;`

if [[ "${Version}" != "" ]]
then
	ExtPackFile=Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-${Version}-77440.vbox-extpack
	ExtPackURL=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${Version}/${ExtPackFile}

	echo "Downloading and installing ${ExtPackFile}" && \
	wget -qO /tmp/virtualbox/${ExtPackFile} ${ExtPackURL} && \
	VBoxManage extpack install --replace ${ExtPackFile}

fi

#!/bin/bash

echo "Fetching latest Version"

Version=`wget -qO - http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/LATEST.TXT|cat;`

if [[ "${Version}" != "" ]]

then

ExtPackFile=Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-${Version}-77440.vbox-extpack

ExtPackURL=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/${Version}/${ExtPackFile}

echo "Downloading and installing ${ExtPackFile}" && \

wget -qO /tmp/virtualbox/${ExtPackFile} ${ExtPackURL} && \

VBoxManage extpack install --replace ${ExtPackFile}

dopefish says:
April 28, 2012 at 7:07 pm
Because the “-77440” suffix is different with each version. Although I just noticed that there is also a version of the file in the directory without that suffix which would allow using the LATEST.TXT to build the download URL

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