problems when installing vmware on fedora core 7 please try to help me out here
 

After i tryed installing vmware an i installed it once an i acsedently canceled

it.

an i tryed installing it again

an here i get this message so please help me


[root@localhost vmware-server-distrib]# ./vmware-install.pl
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 3).

Keeping the tar3 installer database format.

Error: Unable to execute "/usr/vmware-uninstall.pl.

Failure

Execution aborted.


so what can i do ??

Why don't you try downloading and installing the rpm for vmware?

you could also do a search for vmware:
sudo find / -name vmware
and delete all but the installation files.

how can i delete all the instalation
files
??

Have you tried running /usr/vmware-uninstall.pl. manually?

After you do the find, you should get a list of items. I had:
sudo find / -name vmware
root's password:
/var/run/vmware
/var/lock/subsys/vmware
/etc/init.d/vmware
/etc/vmware
/usr/share/doc/vmware
/usr/lib/vmware

Now you can remove it by doing
>sudo rm -rf /var/run/vmware /var/lock/subsys/vmware /etc/init.d/vmware /etc/init.d/vmware /usr/share/doc/vmware /usr/lib/vmware

After that, I bet you can run the installer successfully.

well thanks a lot well i have deleted it all the files so can you
give me a good way to download VMware?

yeah, you should be able to download the .rpm from the vmware.com website.

o ok i will go check out www.vmware.com an if i need help i will ask you thanks /.