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Iam using a debian and i have mounted the cdrom to install the guest additions in linux and it gave me the error as below.

root@Debian:/media/cdrom# sudo ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run
sudo: unable to execute ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run: Permission denied

So i have tried an alternative method from this thread and i have tried the first command and it gave another error

root@Debian:/media/cdrom# apt-get install virtualbox-ose-guest-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package virtualbox-ose-guest-utils

How to rectify this error and is there any other ways to install guest additions?

System specifications:

OS -- Debian 8
VirtualBox
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Sai Kiran
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The debian package is called virtualbox-guest-utils, so you need to install it with 

sudo apt-get install virtualbox-guest-utils

My guess why the cdrom is not working, is that you mounted the cd as noexec. So either mount it as exec or copy the file to your home directory and execute it there. (Maybe you have to set it as executable before)

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