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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">
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| 3 | <topic xml:lang="en-us" id="additions-linux-uninstall">
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| 4 | <title>Uninstalling the Linux Guest Additions</title>
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| 5 |
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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>
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| 8 | If you have a version of the Guest Additions installed on your
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| 9 | virtual machine and wish to remove it without installing new
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| 10 | ones, you can do so by inserting the Guest Additions CD image
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| 11 | into the virtual CD-ROM drive as described above. Then run the
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| 12 | installer for the current Guest Additions with the
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| 13 | <codeph>uninstall</codeph> parameter from the path that the
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| 14 | CD image is mounted on in the guest, as follows:
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| 15 | </p>
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| 16 | <pre xml:space="preserve">sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run uninstall</pre>
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| 17 | <p>
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| 18 | While this will normally work without issues, you may need to
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| 19 | do some manual cleanup of the guest in some cases, especially
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| 20 | of the XFree86Config or xorg.conf file. In particular, if the
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| 21 | Additions version installed or the guest operating system were
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| 22 | very old, or if you made your own changes to the Guest
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| 23 | Additions setup after you installed them.
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| 24 | </p>
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| 25 | <p>
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| 26 | You can uninstall the Additions as follows:
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| 27 | </p>
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| 28 | <pre xml:space="preserve">/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-<varname>version</varname>/uninstall.sh</pre>
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| 29 | <p>
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| 30 | Replace
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| 31 | <filepath>/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-<varname>version</varname></filepath>
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| 32 | with the correct Guest Additions installation directory.
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| 33 | </p>
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| 34 | </body>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | </topic>
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