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Hi All, I installed VirtualBox from the website instead of OSE from the repo. I can't figure out how to remove it....any idead? I have tried synaptic and came up ...
  1. 03-08-2009 #1
    jmadero
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    Remove VirtualBox?

    Hi All,
    I installed VirtualBox from the website instead of OSE from the repo. I can't figure out how to remove it....any idead? I have tried synaptic and came up with nothing. Thanks all
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    did you install from a .deb a .run or from source code? ... which section did you download from? and which version did you install?
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    it was a deb which makes it even weirder that it's not in synaptic and when I try to do sudo apt-get remove VirtualBox it says no installed (but I can run VirtualBox by typing in just that in terminal)
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    try sudo apt-get remove virtuanbox 2.1.4 or 2.1.2
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    does dpkg -l | grep virtualbox list anything useful?
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    I have installed it using .run , so how can i uninstall it?
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    Have you checked to see if the .run script that installed it might have an "uninstall" option? If not, then check on the Sun/VirtualBox web site for help with this. I always use the .rpm or .deb files to install (depending upon the platform) so the package manager can uninstall it later.
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