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je1117

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Registered: 2014-09-15

Posts: 1

Installing newest version of VMware tools via AUR

Hello all,

Trying to download/install VMware tools from https://aur.archlinux.org/pkgbase/vmware-tools/ . I'm using Workstation 10.0.3, and the Tools included on the CD is version VMware-Tools-9.6.2-1688356, but need the newest version which according to AUR is 9.6.2.1895310.

I've downloaded the tarball, extracted, sudo makepkg -s --asroot, pacman -U pkg.tar.gz, installs properly - but no real installation of vmware-tools takes place. I can't run a vmware-tools-config or find any files associated with it.

I've attempted mounting the linux.iso that is found in the tarball src folder, it is identical to the CD version of tools - 9.6.2-1688356.

Can someone please tell me what I might be doing wrong? I cannot find VMware-Tools-9.6.2-1895310.tar.gz for the life of me.

Regards,
Josh

dice

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-02-10

Posts: 413

Re: Installing newest version of VMware tools via AUR

According to PKGBUILD files are placed in /opt/vmware

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