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Problem installing VMware Tools

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• Started 12 years ago by wajed
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   wajed
   

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   I followed the instructions from the VMware help file, but I can't get VMware Tools to install.

   I uncompress the file called "VMwareTools-8.4.5-324285.tar.gz" found in "/media/VMware Tools" using the terminal.
   The file gets uncompressed to "/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib" and I get files like "bin", "doc", "etc". Also, I get to files called "INSTALL" and "vmware-install.pl" that have icons with small box and an arrow inside (I think that means they are shortcuts)

   When I execute vmware-install.pl from terminal using command "vmware-install.pl" I get "vmware-install.pl: not found"
   When I execute it directly (by double-clicking) I get "Failed to execute child process "/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib-vmware-install.pl" (No such file or directory)".

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   mojo
   

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   Become root
   cd to the same directory as vmware-install.pl
   ./vmware-install.pl
   Period. forward slash/ vmware-install.pl
   ./vmware-install.pl
   Another issue if the above fails is vmware-install.pl has to have executable permissions
   ls -la vmware-install.pl <= will list permissions
   chmod a+x vmware-install.pl <= executable for all to fix

   Installing VMware Tools from the Command Line with the Tar Installer
   http://www.vmware.com/support/ws55/doc/ws_newguest_tools_linux.html

   Posted 12 years ago #
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   wajed
   

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   Thank you.

   I forgot to say that I was root.

   The problem was that I didn't have gcc and other apps/files.
   Here is what I needed: slitaz-toolchain and slitaz-dev-pkgs
   which can be downloaded and installed using the commands:-
   tazpkg get-install slitaz-toolchain
   tazpkg get-install slitaz-dev-pkgs

   I still haven't installed the VM Tools yet. So this is only half of the solution.

   More info: http://vanilla.slitaz.org/index.php?p=/discussion/355/how-to-install-vmware-tools-s/p1

   (I'm mentioning this for reference if somebody faces the same problem.)

   Posted 12 years ago #

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