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On most up-to-date Ubuntu flavours that I install in VMs in Virtual Box when I choose the option to Insert Guest Additions CD image... I am shortly asked if I wish to run what is one there, and when I choose to do so a Terminal windows opens up which installs it.
However on Lubuntu this is not the case, it just asks me if I would like to open it with the file manager, and then even though there are executable files in there, executing them doesn't seem to do much good, so how do I install it on Lubuntu and why doesn't it just act like the rest of the Ubuntu flavours and offer to immediately run it for me?

I have tried this in both Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS and 15.10 (though I currently have 15.10 in the VM). And I am running the latest version of Virtual Box.

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The Oracle documentation gives a reasonable 'manual' method to install the Guest Additions which should fit in with your problem.

First update and then install dkms:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install dkms

Then when on your system the Guest Additions option opens a File Manager window: open a Terminal window in that location and run:

sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions.run

If you successfully mount the Guest Additions iso but get no window at all you should still be able to find the iso mounted in /media/$USER/VBOXADDITIONS_version. So currently on my system the mount point is:

/media/andrew/VBOXADDITIONS_5.0.8_103449

Of course this will vary according to which version of the Guest Additions you are actually using.

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