I encounter this error:
The path /usr/src/linux/include is not an existing directory.
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
Best Answer
This also happened to me when I interrupted vmware tools upgrade. it seems, the first thing the upgrade does is delete all files in the system. the uninstall script being the first one and that's why you can't find it.
I don't understand why the installation gets interrupted+ if the uninstall script is not found (for me, that's just a bad decision), but the mounted device comes with its own script which you can use to delete everything. a simple
outputed its location and for me it was in
For you, the only difference should be ronald instead of *my_username*. Hope that helps.