Trouble Uninstalling Virtualbox

[shai3]

I was having trouble with the version of VirtualBox I uploaded through Ubuntu Software Center (4.3.18) so I uninstalled that and installed the latest version from Oracle (4.3.26). I'm getting incompatible kernel errors.

The un-installation instructions from Oracle don't work... VirtualBox seems like it isn't in the place where it is expected.

I believe that Software Manager did the installing for me origininally when I clicked on the .deb file that I had downloaded from Oracle Software Center opened up and clicked "install" there.

But now Software Center will not uninstall it. If I try to Install VirtualBox 4.3.18 from the Software Center it warns me there is another version on the machine and that I should uninstall it first. But I don't know how.

Software Center does give me the choice to "Install it anyway" but I'm don't want to do that.

Thanks in advance for help.

[shai3]

I did it.

I first I ran:

apt-get --purge remove virtualbox

I still got the same error when trying to install virtualbox in the Software Center. But I saw that it was complaining specificall about virtualbox-4.3

So I ran


apt-get --purge remove virtualbox-4.3 and that successfully purged it and I could reinstall from the Software Center.

[v3.xx]

For adding/removing packages and other things you may find SPM easier to work with (I do).
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