On Sun, January 11, 2009 11:38 am, Jim Kvarnberg wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I've a problem with VirtualBox on my Ubuntu 8.04 amd64. I've installed
> Sun xVM VirtualBox 2.0.6, but when I tried to install another OS like
> Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 or Sabayon-Linux 64 as a guest, a box popped up
> stating that an essential file is missing in the program that it could
> not install the os. I want to install Ubuntu's VirtualBox OSE, but I
> couldn't because of the Sun Vbox 2.0.6 still in my OS. I couldn't find
> anything to uninstall it not even in Applications' Add/Remove. Ubuntu's
> help didn't give me sufficient information on uninstalling a software.
> Can you please give me a tip that'll be greatly appreciated?  Thank you.

I don't use Ubuntu, so if you used apt I'd guess you could use their
delete/remove mechanism. If you installed the generic Linux package, you
can (IIRC) do:

./VirtualBox-2.1.0-41146-Linux_amd64.run uninstall

Of course, do this by replacing the file name with whatever you actually
installed,

Randy



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