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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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| 6 | <body>
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| 7 | <p>If you have a version of the Guest Additions installed on your virtual machine and want to remove it without
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| 8 | installing new ones, you can do so by inserting the Guest Additions CD image into the virtual CD-ROM drive as
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| 9 | described above. Then run the installer for the current Guest Additions with the <codeph>uninstall</codeph>
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| 10 | parameter from the path that the CD image is mounted on in the guest, as follows: </p>
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| 11 | <pre xml:space="preserve">sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run uninstall</pre>
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| 12 | <p>While this will normally work without issues, you may need to do some manual cleanup of the guest in some cases,
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| 13 | especially of the XFree86Config or xorg.conf file. In particular, if the Additions version installed or the guest
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| 14 | operating system were very old, or if you made your own changes to the Guest Additions setup after you installed
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| 15 | them. </p>
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| 16 | <p>You can uninstall the Additions as follows: </p>
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| 17 | <pre xml:space="preserve">/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-<varname>version</varname>/uninstall.sh</pre>
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| 18 | <p>Replace <filepath>/opt/VBoxGuestAdditions-<varname>version</varname></filepath> with the correct Guest Additions
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| 19 | installation directory. </p>
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| 20 | </body>
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| 22 | </topic>
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