Specifications

Basic System Administration
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5UncompresstheinstallerandunmounttheCD‐ROMimage.
DependingonwhetheryouareusingthetarinstallerortheRPMinstaller,doone
ofthefollowing:
 Forthetarinstaller,atthecommandprompt,enter:
tar zxpf /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-5.0.0-<xxxx>.tar.gz
umount /dev/cdrom
Where <xxxx> isthebuild/revisionnumberoftheWorkstationrelease.
 FortheRPMinstaller,atthecommandprompt,enter:
rpm -Uhv /mnt/cdrom/VMwareTools-5.0.0-<xxxx>.i386.rpm
umount /dev/cdrom
Where <xxxx> isthebuild/revisionnumberoftheWorkstationrelease.
6DependingonwhetheryouareusingthetarinstallerortheRPMinstaller,doone
ofthefollowing:
 Forthetarinstaller,runtheVMwareToolstarinstaller:
cd vmware-tools-distrib
./vmware-install.pl
Respondtotheconfigurationquestionsonthescreen.PressEntertoacceptthe
defaultvalue.
 FortheRPMinstaller,configureVMwareTools:
vmware-config-tools.pl
Respondtothequestionstheinstallerdisplaysonthescreen.PressEnterto
acceptthedefaultvalue.
7Logofftherootaccount.
exit
8Startyourgraphicalenvironment.
9InanXterminal,opentheVMwareToolsPropertiesdialogbox:
vmware-toolbox &
NOTEIfyouattempttoinstallanrpminstallationoveratarinstallation—orthe
reverse—theinstallerdetectsthepreviousinstallationandmustconvertthe
installerdatabaseformatbeforecontinuing.