So far it looks like that might be the solution, though it's weird because when I run the command it wants to install 38 new packages, most of them with xserver related stuff. Then I removed each manually by running apt-get remove virtualbox-ose-guest-dkms virtualbox-ose-guest-utils virtualbox-ose-guest-x11 I did a bit more searching, and found out that I can see the list of packages installed by running dpkg -l. How do I uninstall the VBoxGuestAdditions that was a default part of Debian?Īfter reading and trying out jw013's answer, I suspected that maybe I just didn't know the proper package names. Recommend that you cancel this installation and remove it properly before Linux distribution or if it is a default part of the system then we strongly If you installed it from a package from your On your system which was installed from a different source or using aĭifferent type of installer.

When I ran sh /media/cdrom/n I got the following warning message: You appear to have a version of the VBoxGuestAdditions software

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