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https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/software/virtualization/virtualbox
sudo /opt/VirtualBox/uninstall.sh
does not work. Solus does not have an /opt
directory.
https://help.getsol.us/docs/user/software/virtualization/virtualbox
sudo /opt/VirtualBox/uninstall.sh
does not work. Solus does not have an /opt
directory.
It is important to uninstall any version of VirtualBox (or VirtualBox Guest Additions) that was not installed from the Software Center.
So as the help article says that command is only if you have installed through alternative means.
/opt
is used by a lot of software. As a general rule we do not use it for packages in the Solus repository. This does not mean that software installed via the user downloading and extracting / running an install script from elsewhere won't default to this location which is exactly the case this section of the article is addressing.
Yes. Any folder can be created by the installation of software, it does not matter that it is not there on the default OS install.
While it is our policy to not to use /opt
for software in the repository there is an exception that has an open issue to fix: https://github.com/getsolus/packages/blob/b75b139c65507b53506bf4e4746c5f8d32d4234e/packages/b/brscan4/pspec_x86_64.xml#L24
Packages in the Third Party section intentionally use /opt
etc etc