Installion: How To Uninstall virtualbox-dbg On Debian 8

How To Uninstall virtualbox-dbg On Debian 8

To uninstall virtualbox-dbg just follow these instructions.

Are you having problems? You can always add virtualbox-dbgagain by following the instructions at this link.

sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-dbg

This will remove just the virtualbox-dbg package itself.

sudo apt-get remove --auto-remove virtualbox-dbg

This will remove the virtualbox-dbg package and any other dependant packages which are no longer needed.

If you also want to delete your local/config files for virtualbox-dbg then this will work.

Caution! Purged config/data can not be restored by reinstalling the package.

sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-dbg

Or similarly, like this virtualbox-dbg

sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove virtualbox-dbg

Package	virtualbox-dbg
Version	4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1
Maintainer	Debian Virtualbox Team <[email protected]>
Home page	http://www.virtualbox.org/
Description	x86 virtualization solution – debugging symbols
Distro	debian
Release	jessie
Repo	contrib
Section	contrib/debug