VirtualBox

Opened 12 years ago

Closed 8 years ago

#10752 closed defect (obsolete)

/opt/VirtualBox/uninstall.sh does not remove all files

Reported by: ruario Owned by:
Component: installer Version: VirtualBox 4.1.18
Keywords: Cc:
Guest type: all Host type: all

Description

160.8KiB of files are left behind after running the uninstall.sh provided by VirtualBox-4.1.18-78361-Linux_x86.run, specifically the following files:

/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi-1.0-py2.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/VirtualBox_constants.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/vboxapi/VirtualBox_constants.py

Change History (3)

comment:1 by ruario, 12 years ago

Installation was on Slackware version 13.37 (32-Bit).

comment:2 by Frank Mehnert, 12 years ago

Yes, the reason is that the Python distutils package does not provide an uninstall method.

comment:3 by aeichner, 8 years ago

Resolution: obsolete
Status: newclosed

Please reopen if still relevant with a recent VirtualBox release.

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