Sun Microsystems VIRTUALBOX 3.0.0 User Manual

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2 Installation

sudo ./VirtualBox.run uninstall

or as root

./VirtualBox.run uninstall

. Starting with version 2.2.2, you can uninstall the .run package by invoking

/opt/VirtualBox/uninstall.sh

To manually uninstall VirtualBox, simply undo the steps in the manual installation in
reverse order.

2.3.4.5 Automatic installation of Debian packages

The Debian packages will request some user feedback when installed for the first time.
The debconf system is used to perform this task. To prevent any user interaction during
installation, default values can be defined. A file vboxconf can contain the following
debconf settings:

virtualbox virtualbox/module-compilation-allowed boolean true

virtualbox virtualbox/delete-old-modules boolean true

The first line allows compilation of the vboxdrv kernel module if no module was found
for the current kernel. The second line allows the package to delete any old vboxdrv
kernel modules compiled by previous installations.

These default settings can be applied with

debconf-set-selections vboxconf

prior to the installation of the VirtualBox Debian package.

2.3.4.6 Automatic installation of .rpm packages

The .rpm format does not provide a configuration system comparable to the deb-
conf system.

To configure the installation process of our .rpm packages, a file

/etc/default/virtualbox

is interpreted. The automatic generation of the udev

rule can be prevented by the following setting:

INSTALL_NO_UDEV=1

The creation of the group vboxusers can be prevented by

INSTALL_NO_GROUP=1

If the line

INSTALL_NO_VBOXDRV=1

is specified, the package installer will not try to build the vboxdrv kernel module if
no module according to the current kernel was found.

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