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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="install-linux-prereq">
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| 4 | <title>Prerequisites</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>For the various versions of Linux that are supported as host operating systems, see <xref
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| 8 | href="hostossupport.dita#hostossupport"/>. </p>
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| 9 | <p>You may need to install the following packages on your Linux system before starting the installation. Some
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| 10 | systems will do this for you automatically when you install <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>. </p>
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| 11 | <ul>
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| 12 | <li>
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| 13 | <p>Qt 5.3.2 or later. Qt 5.6.2 or later is recommended. </p>
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| 14 | </li>
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| 15 | <li>
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| 16 | <p>SDL 1.2.7 or later. This graphics library is typically called <filepath>libsdl</filepath> or similar. </p>
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| 17 | </li>
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| 18 | </ul>
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| 19 | <note>
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| 20 | <p>These packages are only required if you want to run the <ph conkeyref="vbox-conkeyref-phrases/product-name"/>
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| 21 | graphical user interfaces. In particular, <userinput>VirtualBox</userinput>, the graphical VirtualBox Manager,
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| 22 | requires both Qt and SDL. If you only want to run <userinput>VBoxHeadless</userinput>, neither Qt nor SDL are
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| 23 | required. </p>
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| 24 | </note>
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| 25 | </body>
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| 26 |
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| 27 | </topic>
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