How to uninstall virtualbox package: "is not installed, so not removed"

Question

I'm trying to remove virtualbox from pc but I can't remove package.

dpkg can sees it:

dpkg -l 'virtualbox*' | grep ^i
in  virtualbox-5.0           <none>       amd64        (no description available)

but when I try to remove:

sudo apt-get remove virtualbox-5.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'virtualbox-5.0' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

sudo apt autoremove --purge virtualbox-5.0
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package 'virtualbox-5.0' is not installed, so not removed
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.

How can I remove this package?

Pilot6 · Accepted Answer · 2019-11-02T12:08:23.927

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dpkg -l shows that the package is not installed in.

The first character in in means that the package is marked for installation, the second means that it is not currently installed.

edited Nov 02 '19 at 12:08

answered Sep 02 '19 at 16:33

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how can I remove it? When I run virtualbox in terminal I get: bash: /usr/bin/virtualbox: No such file or directory – Vivi Sep 02 '19 at 16:34
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It is already removed. – Pilot6 Sep 02 '19 at 16:37

How to uninstall virtualbox package: "is not installed, so not removed"

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