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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)".
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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
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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.)
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