How to install VMware Tools on Ubuntu 9.10 guest?
Hello!
I have VMware 6.5.3 for Windows. I installed Ubuntu 9.10 32-bit and I don't know how to install tools guest inside Linux. Guest Windows, it's a blink of an eye, but here are more complicated. Can someone help me with step by step tutorial how to install this on Ubuntu 9.10? I'm newbie here.
When I click the button to install the tools I just get open File Browser with the file .txt, RPM and gz. Any file I click on I can't run Setup. Please help!
It's a little more complicated because each OS has a core (all about that), and Linux, you can have different versions of kernel. Thus, the shell script (files ending in .sh) compiles all the binaries against what you have. I believe that the version of Ubuntu has headers of the kernel with it, so that you would do is:
1. go to places, downloads (the desktop menu bar)
2. find your gz file, right click and select Extract here (I normally do it from the command-line using tar - zxvf, but this should work too)
3. open this directory, right-click on the vmware-install file and select "Run as a program" (in this way you can kick it off)
4. open a terminal (command prompt) and cd to that directory (should be cd downloads/vmware-tools-distrib)
5. Type sudo./vmware-install.sh
6. Enter your password when prompted, then go with the default values, and you should be set. Make sure to run the configuration script (it will ask you if you want to, and you do, but if you mess up that part you can run it later so no biggie) and then sign out and sign back in. You should not need to reboot and everything should work immediately.
At boot, you might see no ERROR. It's probably the HGFS mount is not working due to no shared directories. Don't worry about this for now. If it bugs you, you can comment on him in/etc/fstab (but don't mess with it until you're a bit better). Snapshots are your friend, so use it as your rescue as trash several times your VM Linux, because it will happen.
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