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Old 09-27-2007, 10:43 PM   #1
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Exclamation 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 ??
 
Old 09-28-2007, 03:46 PM   #2
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Why don't you try downloading and installing the rpm for vmware?
 
Old 09-28-2007, 03:47 PM   #3
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you could also do a search for vmware:
sudo find / -name vmware
and delete all but the installation files.
 
Old 09-29-2007, 11:00 AM   #4
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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
??
 
Old 09-29-2007, 11:26 AM   #5
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Have you tried running /usr/vmware-uninstall.pl. manually?
 
Old 09-29-2007, 01:22 PM   #6
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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.
 
Old 09-29-2007, 11:11 PM   #7
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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?
 
Old 09-30-2007, 02:00 PM   #8
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yeah, you should be able to download the .rpm from the vmware.com website.
 
Old 09-30-2007, 10:04 PM   #9
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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 /.
 
  


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