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Name Taken

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 113

[SOLVED] VMware Uninstall

Kernel 3.16 broke VMware Player/Workstation along with vmware-patch from the AUR so now it's not letting me uninstall or reinstall it.

You have gotten this message because you are either downgrading VMware
Workstation, Player, or VIX, or because you attempted to run either
vmware-uninstall or vmware-uninstall-vix.

If you are downgrading, please uninstall all newer versions first, then
install again.

The vmware-uninstall* scripts have been deprecated.  Instead, please use
the vmware-installer.

Long form:
      vmware-installer --uninstall-product PRODUCT
Short form:
      vmware-installer -u PRODUCT

Where PRODUCT is one of vmware-workstation, vmware-player, or vmware-vix.

For a list of which products are installed, you may run:
      vmware-installer --list-products
or:
      vmware-installer -l

Uninstall -
https://i.imgur.com/9oy3jeA.png

Reinstall -
https://i.imgur.com/2GSwGC0.png

Last edited by Name Taken (2014-08-20 01:47:15)

Name Taken

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Registered: 2014-04-09

Posts: 113

Re: [SOLVED] VMware Uninstall

Well, I reinstalled 3.14 LTS, manually deleted a whole bunch of VMware files to get the installer to reinstall and finally did a clean uninstall. Definitely not going to be installing this again, atleast not in Linux. I will be using KVM from now on for nested VMs.

Last edited by Name Taken (2014-08-20 01:49:22)