Trouble Uninstalling VirtualBox

[jezzyjez]

I am running 11.04 and am trying to update my vbox. I have been told by synaptic to remove previous version. I located vbox.cfg:

# VirtualBox installation directory
INSTALL_DIR='/opt/VirtualBox'
# VirtualBox version
INSTALL_VER='4.0.0'
INSTALL_REV='69151'

Then moved to the install_dir, I tried to run uninstal.sh however it did nothing. When run in terminal the window opened and closed without displaying any code.

What is the best way to get rid of it?

I'm assuming just deleting the folder is a bad way of doing things

Thanks
Jez

[jezzyjez]

Update, when running uninstal.sh from terminal the error


uninstall.sh: 22: cannot create /var/log/vbox-uninstall.log: Permission denied
cat: /var/log/vbox-uninstall.log: No such file or directory
Error creating log file! Aborting...


Appears

[wildmanne39]

I am running 11.04 and am trying to update my vbox. I have been told by synaptic to remove previous version. I located vbox.cfg:

# VirtualBox installation directory
INSTALL_DIR='/opt/VirtualBox'
# VirtualBox version
INSTALL_VER='4.0.0'
INSTALL_REV='69151'

Then moved to the install_dir, I tried to run uninstal.sh however it did nothing. When run in terminal the window opened and closed without displaying any code.

What is the best way to get rid of it?

I'm assuming just deleting the folder is a bad way of doing things

Thanks
Jez

HI, just use synaptic to remove it.

[jezzyjez]

It does not appear in synaptic as installed. Then when I selected it for installation it gets part way through and says I need to uninstall it first.

[wsamh]

How did you install it orginally?

[jezzyjez]

How did you install it orginally?

Not 100% sure but I'm pretty certain it was a .deb file from their website.

However I did this before upgrading form 10.10 to 11.04

Program worked fine before upgrade

[wildmanne39]

Not 100% sure but I'm pretty certain it was a .deb file from their website.

However I did this before upgrading form 10.10 to 11.04

Program worked fine before upgrade

Hi, there is a new release for natty, it sounds like you do not have the dkms package installed that rebuilds the kernel, when there is an update to the kernel.

[jezzyjez]

Ok, how do i resolve this?

I've tried installing the new release of the website but it says I need to remove the old one first

[linuxinstalledfromhdd]

You need to open synaptic package manager. And remove it.

Then remove the PPA you installed it with (if applicable)

Then install Ubuntu Tweak, and run a cache and configuration cleaner.

http://cinderbox.net/2010/12/23/to-d...erick-meerkat/

Then

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get clean all
sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get autoremove

[SecretCode]

Update, when running uninstal.sh from terminal the error


uninstall.sh: 22: cannot create /var/log/vbox-uninstall.log: Permission denied
cat: /var/log/vbox-uninstall.log: No such file or directory
Error creating log file! Aborting...


Appears

Are you running sudo uninstal.sh ?