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I'm trying to install VirtualBox 5.2 onto my Fedora 27 dektop box. As per Oracle's official guide, I added the Fedora repo file, however dnf cannot find the VirtualBox package and claims the repo contains zero packages:

# dnf install VirtualBox-5.2
Last metadata expiration check: 1:03:19 ago on Do 01 Mär 2018 11:27:35 CET.
No match for argument: VirtualBox-5.2
Error: Unable to find a match

# dnf repolist --all
Last metadata expiration check: 0:57:04 ago on Do 01 Mär 2018 11:27:35 CET.
repo id                                                                     repo name                                                                                status
*fedora                                                                     Fedora 27 - x86_64                                                                       enabled: 54.801
fedora-debuginfo                                                            Fedora 27 - x86_64 - Debug                                                               disabled
fedora-source                                                               Fedora 27 - Source                                                                       disabled
[...]
virtualbox                                                                  Fedora 27 - x86_64 - VirtualBox                                                          enabled:      0

I can clearly see packages when I open the repo URL in a browser. What am I missing? edit: I couldn't figure out what was wrong, downloaded the appropriate RPM file from virtualbox.org and installed that. It's only the second best solution, but got me a working VirtualBox installation.

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  • What do you get with dnf --repo=virtualbox list available?
    – mattdm
    Mar 1, 2018 at 13:30
  • @mattdm Nothing, effectively, it just tells me the last metadata check date and then returns.
    – simon
    Mar 1, 2018 at 17:06
  • 1.5 years and 3 major releases later, I finally found the issue: For some reason, I had added an "exclude=VirtualBox*" to my /etc/dnf/dnf.conf . Removed that, and installation worked just fine.
    – simon
    Oct 18, 2019 at 11:38

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Once you add the repo:

sudo dnf install VirtualBox

more infos:

To search for the valide package name:

sudo dnf search virtualbox

It will return something like:

VirtualBox.x86_64 : A general-purpose full virtualizer for PC hardware

You don't need to add the architecture when you install it(.x86_64).

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