VirtualBox installed but missing GPG signature

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Hi Everyone, I’m running Fedora Workstation 42 on a Thinkpad T440s.

I have VirtualBox installed from rpmfusion.org, it runs as expected, and I followed the rpmfusion HowTo instructions.

However, when I run a sudo dnf update update, I always get the message as in the screenshot.

As a relative newbie to the world of Linux, I’ve tried various solutions that I’ve read in articles, but basically I’m out of my depth here lol.

I interpret it as meaning I don’t have VB GPG keys installed.

On a side note, I have SecureBoot disabled as I don’t understand the rpmfusion VB instructions. Could anyone point me in the direction of more newbie focussed instructions?

Any and all suggestions gratefully received, thanks!

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In the screenshot I see “www.virtualbox.org”. That would be unexpected if you install VirtualBox from rpmfusion. This makes diagnosing the case a bit complicated.

Can you run dnf repolist. When including the result, we would prefer that you copy and past the text into your message. Then highlight the included text and hit the </> button you se above in the edit window.

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Hi Villy!
Many thanks, here are the results. I see that VB does not belong.

xxx@fedora:~$ dnf repolist
repo id                                          repo name                                            
copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm   Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek               
fedora                                           Fedora 42 - x86_64                                   
fedora-cisco-openh264                            Fedora 42 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64                                                
rpmfusion-free                                   RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Free                      
rpmfusion-free-updates                           RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Free - Updates            
rpmfusion-nonfree                                RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree                   
rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver                  RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree - NVIDIA Driver   
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                        RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree - Updates         
updates                                          Fedora 42 - x86_64 - Updates                         
virtualbox                                       Fedora  -  - VirtualBox                              
xxx@fedora:~$

Edit: I don’t have an NVIDIA GPU installed (Intel integrated) can I remove this too?

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Sometime back I removed virtualbox and reinstalled it from rpmfusion.After that I disabled the virtualbox repo and have had no issue’s with updating or using virtualbox.As far as the nvidia repo it can be disabled but it should not hurt anything as you have no reason to use it.

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Hi guys, many thanks @vekruse and @straycat (love your name/avatar)

As you both contributed to the solution I shall summarize it here.

This clarified that I had the non-rpmfusion version VirtualBox repo installed.

And yes, I had done this too, before I understood that the rpmfusion version is tailor-made for Fedora and is the preferred version.

I then had a hunt around to see how to best remove the VB repo, tecadmin.net gave the most concise instructions so I followed them:

How To Add/Remove Repository In Fedora using DNF

Delete the repository file using rm command.

sudo rm /etc/yum.repos.d/rpmfusion-nonfree-nvidia-driver.repo

(lost the VB command so pasted the NVIDIA one as an example)

VirtualBox repo cleared!

xxx@fedora:~$ dnf repolist
repo id                                          repo name                                            
copr:copr.fedorainfracloud.org:phracek:PyCharm   Copr repo for PyCharm owned by phracek               
fedora                                           Fedora 42 - x86_64                                   
fedora-cisco-openh264                            Fedora 42 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64                                                     
rpmfusion-free                                   RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Free                      
rpmfusion-free-updates                           RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Free - Updates            
rpmfusion-nonfree                                RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree                   
rpmfusion-nonfree-updates                        RPM Fusion for Fedora 42 - Nonfree - Updates         
updates                                          Fedora 42 - x86_64 - Updates                         
xxx@fedora:~$

Thank you so much people, and additional thanks to @vekruse for the tip on how to paste my results in the appropriate format :smiley:

(only makes me love Fedora more)

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Out of curiosity: What makes people prefer VirtualBox over Gnome Boxes or Libvirt with qemu/kvm?

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Hi Villy,

I tried Gnome Boxes, and while being simple to use, it didn’t have enough functions for me.

If that is Qemu, I understand that is potentially the most solid of the three offerings.
Have had an initial look at it, but was too complicated for this newbie :grin:
It’s certainly something I’ll return to.

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Update: unfortunately something weird happened.

After a reboot I only got blank screens for the terminal, file manager, system monitor, and software.
All browsers and other apps are as normal.

Will start a new thread, and update and link to here:

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/blank-empty-system-apps-after-removing-unnecessary-vb-repo/