I have gotten myself into a dilema with VMware. I can't uninstall VMware-server. I had installed it with YaST (running SUSE 10.2) and wanted to redo the install because I followed the wrong instructions on the post-install. When I try to remove with YaST it fails with the following messaage:
Trying "rpm -qa | grep vmware" returned no results. In desperation I tried "rpm -e VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386" which returned:
Then I deleted all the vmware directories and went back to YaST expecting the VMware-server to be gone, but it was still listed in YaST as "installed"! I retried uninstalling it in YaST but got the same error.

At this point I tried reinstalling it by right-clicking on the rpm and selecting "Open with | Install software". I got this result:

I would welcome any ideas on this.

Thanks,
-Bob

Run it as root.

Thanks, but the vmware-uninstall.pl file is nowhere to be found, even in the trash. I have tried everything I know (which isn't that much - ha,ha) to remove it. As I mentioned, I even tried to reinstall it and that fails saying its already installed. There must be a way to remove it or at least make YaST think its gone. Why does YaST think it is still installed?

You want to redo the install because you messed up on the post install. Did you mess up after running vmware-config.pl? If so, just run it again, and it probably needs to be ran as root. I am not familar with the package manager of Suse, but I know dpkg and apt of Debian/Ubuntu and a little of rpm/yum of Redhat/Fedora. Are you sure you were not supposed to type this?

rpm -e VMware-server-1.0.1-29996

Instead of this

rpm -e VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386

What happens when you try to install the rpm using the rpm -i command? It sounds like your package manager is broke. If you can't resolve the problem, you might want to use a different package manager next time such as apt, but that would mean switching to either Debian or Ubuntu. You can also install vmware server from a package with a script that you run that is downloaded from the vmware website instead of using the rpm package. The install is probably more complicated and involves compiling a kernel module, but it worked for me, and that's how I have vmware server running under Ubuntu 6.10.

# rpm -e VMware-server-1.0.1-29996
/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.73247: line 34: /etc/vmware/installer.sh: No such file or directory
error: %preun(VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 127

# rpm -i VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386
error: open of VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386 failed: No such file or directory

# rpm -i VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm
package VMware-server-1.0.1-29996 is already installed

# rpm -e VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm
error: package VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm is not installed

If the name has captial letters in it, then you need to do this instead, but I thought all packages had lowercase letters in their names. Your distro might be different. You package manager seems broken. Your should try apt. It's been my favorite of all.