VMWare Player 12 Installation

XtremelyNooby · 2015-10-24 19:21:02

Hey guys,
I'm trying to install VMPlayer 12 on my copy of Arch and I messed up the initial set up. When it asked for the service script directory, I accidentally put in /etc/init.d/vmware instead of just /etc/init.d

It doesn't run but I uninstalled it fine. However, when I tried to reinstall, it doesn't ask my to choose the directory anymore.

How do I go and reset that?

Thanks

c0mm0ner · 2015-11-10 14:31:10

How did you install, how did you uninstall?

WorMzy · 2015-11-10 15:53:01

When you uninstall, double check that /etc/vmware/config has been removed before reinstalling (or just remove all vmware directories in /etc).

stevwills · 2016-08-06 04:14:54

I had the same problem, I must say i bashed my head a lot on that on, to fix,
sudo nano /etc/vmware/config

and change the line in your case initscriptdir = ''/etc/init.d/vmware'' to

initscriptdir = "/etc/init.d"

save file and run vmware. man that was a struggle to find XD. a big thx to WorMzy for telling me the config directory. could not have done it without him. so just editing the config file wroks really well..

Last edited by stevwills (2016-08-06 04:15:51)

WorMzy · 2016-08-06 11:26:35

Thanks for sharing, stevwills.

I'm going to take this opportunity to close this old thread now.

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#1 2015-10-24 19:21:02

VMWare Player 12 Installation

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Re: VMWare Player 12 Installation

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Re: VMWare Player 12 Installation

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Re: VMWare Player 12 Installation

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Re: VMWare Player 12 Installation

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