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Cannot install vmware-tools
I encounter this error:
The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.
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migrated from stackoverflow.com May 2 '11 at 11:21
marked as duplicate by Marco Ceppi♦ Sep 1 '11 at 2:03
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you should install the header first and then enter on the vmware installation: It should help |
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Hi there are still issues as listed below. Please advise ronald@ronald-virtual-machine:~/Desktop/vmware tools/vmware-tools-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl [sudo] password for ronald: A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected. The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4). Keeping the tar4 installer database format. You have a version of VMware Tools installed. Continuing this install will first uninstall the currently installed version. Do you wish to continue? (yes/no) [yes] Error: Unable to execute "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl. Uninstall failed. Please correct the failure and re run the install. Execution aborted. ronald@ronald-virtual-machine:~/Desktop/vmware tools/vmware-tools-distrib$ chmod +x /usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl chmod: cannot access `/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl': No such file or directory |
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copy uninstall script from vmware-tools-distrib/bin/ to /usr/bin as following command: cp path_to_extracted_vmware-tools_dir/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl /usr/bin/.then run install script again. |
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