IOW, the right answer for this issue isn't to find a way to work around installing the vm tools from the host ISO, but to not install the vm tools from the host ISO, but to update the open-vm-tools package, instead.Free software + some proprietary device drivers So I gave up on installing the client software from the virtual ISO in the host, and just ran See for moreĭo you still want to proceed with this installation? no
Open-vm-tools packages are available from the OS vendor and VMware recommends using open-vm-tools packages.
Packages must be removed with the -purge option.įrom this it is clear what muast be done to remove them: The packages that need to be removed are: If you do not want to use the existing installation of open-vm-tools packages and use VMware Tools, you must uninstall the open-vm-tools packages and re-run this installer. It is recommended to use the open-vm-tools packages provided by the operating system. The installer has detected an existing installation of open-vm-tools packages on this system and will not attempt to remove and replace these user-space applications. I ran into this when I upgrade the version of VMWare on my host, and followed its instructions for updating the client.Īfter I'd mounted the virtual CD image, untarred and ran the installed, I saw the message: $ cp /media/my_username/VMware\ Tools/VMwareTools-9.6. To correct "Error: Unable to execute "/usr/bin/." do a sudo copy of the from the new vmware tools you want to install to the location it is looking for it (typically /usr/bin)Īs an example, I usually open a terminal and change directory to /tmp then click on VMware menu Manage then option "Reinstall VMware Tools." then (once VMware mounts its CDROM of latest tools) copy tar from read-only CDROM to /tmp as below (based on a version 9.6.1-1378637) $ cd /tmp $sudo apt-get install linux-headers-3.5.0-46-generic build-essential I added build-essential to apt-get because you always need it for vmware tools. Might end up needing to do this even after a 'sudo apt-get install build-essentials' when you update to a leading edge kernel via 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' or manually. To install the kernel headers needed by vmware tools run uname -r (to get kernel name) and apt-get below. Pressing Ctrl-C during vmware-install can cause the "Error: Unable to execute "/usr/bin/." in several cases in general. I would summarize issue as aborting a vmware-install when kernel headers not found. I solved this same problem doing fixes below.
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