# How to upgrade QIIME 2 VirtualBox?
**URL:** https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-upgrade-qiime-2-virtualbox/3407
**Category:** User Support
**Tags:** virtualbox
**Created:** [March 13, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-upgrade-qiime-2-virtualbox/3407 "2018-03-13T18:45:32Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@wym199633](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/wym199633)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-upgrade-qiime-2-virtualbox/3407/1 "2018-03-13T18:45:32Z")
By the way, I use qiime2 by virtual box. If the latest version come, I need to download the new one and delete the old version, or I can update it with input some code in the console? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@colinbrislawn](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/colinbrislawn)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-upgrade-qiime-2-virtualbox/3407/2 "2018-03-13T19:48:12Z")
Good morning,
You can update Qiime using the console, without having to download a new VM image. Inside the virtualbox image, you can install the newest version of qiime by following the instructions here: [Natively installing QIIME 2 — QIIME 2 2018.2.0 documentation](https://docs.qiime2.org/2018.2/install/native/)
Your operating system on the VM is Linux (64-bit).
Let me know if you have any questions about installing / updating qiime on the virtualbox.
Colin
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-upgrade-qiime-2-virtualbox/3407/3 "2018-03-13T21:57:07Z")
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-upgrade-qiime-2-virtualbox/3407/4 "2018-03-13T21:59:55Z")
Thanks for the info @colinbrislawn! @wym199633, you are certainly free to follow @colinbrislawn's suggestion, but our official recommendation is to download and install the newest version of QIIME 2 VirtualBox. This is because there are a handful of things that we do in each release to properly set up things like QIIME 2 Studio, tab completion, mounts, and so on. If you follow @colinbrislawn's suggestion, those other elements most likely won't work automatically, and we won't be able to provide support for cleaning those things up. Just something to keep in mind!
Thanks! 🦖
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### Author:  [@thermokarst](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/thermokarst)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2018, 9:59pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-upgrade-qiime-2-virtualbox/3407/5 "2018-03-13T21:59:59Z")
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### Author:  [@wym199633](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/wym199633)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2018, 10:06pm UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-upgrade-qiime-2-virtualbox/3407/6 "2018-04-11T22:06:15Z")
Ok! I think download it again would be better because I'm not really good at computer things 🙂 Thank for reply! And I'm waiting for the new version 😁
Yours,
Oliver
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.qiime2.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2018, 4:06am UTC](https://forum.qiime2.org/t/how-to-upgrade-qiime-2-virtualbox/3407/7 "2018-05-13T04:06:17Z")
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