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SmarterChild

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Registered: 2008-07-24

Posts: 35

how to remove VirtualBox

Hello all,
I have a little problem with VirtualBox,
i can't remove the package.

bash-3.2# pacman -R virtualbox-ose
loading package data...
error: 'virtualbox-ose': could not find or read package

bash-3.2# pacman -R virtualbox
loading package data...
error: 'virtualbox': could not find or read package

i installed VirtualBox Via http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: how to remove VirtualBox

pacman -Q | grep virtualbox

if you installed manualy then you can't remove virtualbox via pacman. you should remove it manualy

how did you install?
./VirtualBox.run install /opt/VirtualBox   ??

Last edited by wonder (2008-07-28 18:11:17)

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SmarterChild

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Registered: 2008-07-24

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Re: how to remove VirtualBox

how did you install?
./VirtualBox.run install /opt/VirtualBox   ??

yes.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

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Re: how to remove VirtualBox

VirtualBox.run has uninstall.
do
./VirtualBox.run uninstall

don't know if you need to put extra paramaters like /opt/VirtualBox. if it complains append it to the first

btw. next time when you want to install virtualbox you can use http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=9753

Last edited by wonder (2008-07-28 18:22:31)

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SmarterChild

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Re: how to remove VirtualBox

bash-3.2# ./VirtualBox-1.6.2-Linux_x86.run unistall
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation........
VirtualBox Version 1.6.2 (Sat May 31 04:03:49 CEST 2008) installation
Please specify an absolute path

Usage: install [<installation directory>] | uninstall

Example:
./VirtualBox-1.6.2-Linux_x86.run install
bash-3.2#

i tried:

bash-3.2# ./VirtualBox-1.6.2-Linux_x86.run unistall /opt/VirtualBox-1.6.2/
Verifying archive integrity... All good.
Uncompressing VirtualBox for Linux installation........
VirtualBox Version 1.6.2 (Sat May 31 04:03:49 CEST 2008) installation
Please specify an absolute path

Usage: install [<installation directory>] | uninstall

Example:
./VirtualBox-1.6.2-Linu

x_x86.run install
bash-3.2#

Last edited by SmarterChild (2008-07-28 18:35:58)

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

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Re: how to remove VirtualBox

btw is uninstall not unistall
./VirtualBox-1.6.2-Linux_x86.run uninstall /opt/VirtualBox

Last edited by wonder (2008-07-28 18:40:01)

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SmarterChild

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Re: how to remove VirtualBox

./VirtualBox-1.6.2-Linux_x86.run uninstall /opt/VirtualBox

Thx.

gregosp

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Re: how to remove VirtualBox

pacman -Q | grep virtualbox

and remove packages listed above
in my case:

pacman -R virtualbox-ext-oracle
pacman -R virtualbox-additions
pacman -R virtualbox-bin

Inxsible

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From: Chicago

Registered: 2008-06-09

Posts: 9,183

Re: how to remove VirtualBox

Seriously, the thread is 3 years old. I think the OP must have removed the package long since.

Closing to avoid further necro-bumping.

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