Hi guys,

I'm a complete Linus noob. I'm trying to manually install the VMware tools in my Ubuntu machine which resides in my Windows 10 machine. The cd is mounted but that's about it. How do I run the .pl script? This is what I get:

osboxes@osboxes:~/Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib$ perl vmware-install.pl
Warning: Use of "log" without parentheses is ambiguous at vmware-install.pl line 2.
String found where operator expected at vmware-install.pl line 6, near "pl "$@""
(Do you need to predeclare pl?)
String found where operator expected at vmware-install.pl line 7, near "echo "VMware Tools installation end `date`""
(Do you need to predeclare echo?)
Unknown regexp modifier "/v" at vmware-install.pl line 2, at end of line
Unknown regexp modifier "/w" at vmware-install.pl line 2, at end of line
Unknown regexp modifier "/r" at vmware-install.pl line 2, at end of line
Unknown regexp modifier "/e" at vmware-install.pl line 2, at end of line
syntax error at vmware-install.pl line 6, near "pl "$@""
Execution of vmware-install.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
osboxes@osboxes:~/Desktop/vmware-tools-distrib$

anybody?

Greetings

Hello and welcome to LQ.

From the help pages.

"Because the VMware Tools installer is written in Perl, verify that Perl is installed in the guest operating system." We would need to be sure perl is installed and hopefully we don't have a version issue.

Also,

These are dependencies of VMware Tools. These packages must be available on the Linux operating system before installing VMware Tools.

gcc
binutils
make
kernel sources

A how to like this to double check steps maybe. https://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/mi...rnalId=1022525