Fix VMware error: A previous installation of VMware software has been detected
June 3, 2007
You get this error when trying to install VMware Server after having had the VMware Player installed — in my case it was on Ubuntu after using the vmware-player package from the repository.
The error looks like this:
mshade@gobot:~/vmware/vmware-server-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.
Failure
Execution aborted.
It's finding files in /etc/vmware leftover from the previous installation. You can do either of the following commands to fix:
mv /etc/vmware /etc/vmware.bak
OR
rm -rf /etc/vmware
OR
rm -rf /etc/vmware
You may need to elevate privileges by prefacing the command with sudo or becoming root with su.
Rerun vmware-installer.pl and all should be well.
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September 20th, 2007 at 8:32 am
My exact problem! A nice, easy fix as well.