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I am using Ubuntu 12.10.



I downloaded from virtualbox.org the virtualbox package 4.2.4*.deb.



I wanted to install it with dpkg -i and terminal requested me to use command alien instead.



So I did alien <package> then dpkg -i <package> and used virtualbox.



Now I want to uninstall virtualbox (because something went wrong) because it was not installed with sudo apt-get install.



I want to use command dpkg -e <package> or dpkg --purge <package> but this ends with report



file or directory not found


Then



sudo dpkg -l | grep virtualbox


reports:



ii  virtualbox-4.2                                  4.2.4-81684~Ubuntu~quantal                     amd64        Oracle VM VirtualBox
rc virtualbox-qt 4.1.18-dfsg-1ubuntu1.1 amd64 x86 virtualization solution - Qt based user interface


what should I do next ?


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Run this command in a terminal window:



sudo apt-get purge virtualbox-4.2 virtualbox-qt


That should remove them both.


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