CentOS 6.5下安装VMwareTools详解以及错误分析

此连接为详细安装教程https://www.linuxidc.com/Linux/2017-05/143323.htm

https://www.cnblogs.com/carsonzhu/p/5503425.html

安装过程中出现如下问题：A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4).

Keeping the tar4 installer database format.


You have a version of VMware Tools installed.  Continuing this install will 
first uninstall the currently installed version.  Do you wish to continue? 
(yes/no) [yes] y

Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Tools.

Unable to find the answer LIBDIR in the installer database 
(/etc/vmware-tools/locations). You may want to re-install VMware Tools.

Execution aborted.

Uninstall failed.  Please correct the failure and re run the install.

Execution aborted.

原因是之前有未完成的安装

解决方法：

1. 删除etc/vmware-tools目录

rm -rf /etc/vmware-tools

2. 删除/tmp/vm* 注意不要把 VMwa*的也删除了

rm -rf /tmp/vm*

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然后重新执行 

tar -zxvf VMwareTools* 重复正常操作

OK

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