Cant uninstall sun virtualbox

[datboy]

Hey guys im having a major problem i cant uninstall vb.Its not listed in sources i tried to remove it in the terminal and it says its not installed i tried to purge it but no luck im running ubuntu 9 thanks

[tuxxy]

Did you install the .deb from virtualbox website, try this;

sudo dpkg -r VirtualBox

[datboy]

yes i installed it from their site i tried the code you stated this is the message i got
dpkg - warning: ignoring request to remove virtualbox which isn't installed.

[datboy]

Anyone else out there can help

[andrea000]

It should show up in synaptic so you could try there.
You can also try this in the terminal
sudo apt-get --purge remove virtualbox

[datboy]

Tried it but to no avail........

[andrea000]

it does not show up in synaptic?

[Perryg]

Type dpkg -l virtual* in terminal and see if it lists virtualbox. If so you should be able to remove it using dpkg.
If you see it there and then it says it is not installed when you try to remove it you are not typing the complete name.
You can try to use a wild-card and see if it finds it or type the complete name. sudo dpkg -r virtualbox*

[Dedoimedo]

VirtualBox package goes with capital V,B, so you might want to check this one too. Likewise, try VirtualBox3, virtualbox3.
Maybe try via Synaptic, search for virtualbox and see what it offers you.

Dedoimedo

[hatsch]

i have the same problem here. none of the described solutions worked.
any ideas?

[renkinjutsu]

sure you installed from the deb file and not the run file?

[moz44]

I have Sun Virtual Box version 3.0 installed in my Karmic Koala box. To uninstall it I just typed in the command line:

sudo dpkg -r virtualbox-3.0

[pcrat]

yep ive tried it all also.. I downloaded the deb file from there site.. installed it by clicking the deb file. thats it its installed.. now theres no way to get rid of this? i got vmware which is better so now got to figure out how to get rid of this...

wish i seen this thread before i installed virtual box lol.

[phi2go]

I'd got the same problem and I solved it with using the option --purge

sudo dpkg --purge virtualbox-3.1

do it for all virtual* you had.

[TheFu]

Whatever you do, don't go and delete any files manually. You'll be in "APT-Hell" from now on if you do. You'll have to learn much more about APT that you really want to know in that case to clean up the database. On my 10.04 Server install, the package names from

$ sudo dpkg -l virtual*
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Cfg-files/Unpacked/Failed-cfg/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name Version Description
+++-==============-==============-============================================
un virtualbox <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-2.0 <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-2.1 <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-2.2 <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-3.0 <none> (no description available)
un virtualbox-gue <none> (no description available)
ii virtualbox-ose 3.1.6-dfsg-2ub x86 virtualization solution - base binaries
ii virtualbox-ose 3.1.6-dfsg-2ub x86 virtualization solution - kernel module
ii virtualbox-ose 3.1.6-dfsg-2ub x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user
un virtualbox-ose <none> (no description available)

[mercvrivs]

Try

sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-dkms