Failure: A previous installation of VMware software has been

[hansenwang]

root@HansenUbuntu:/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware-install.pl
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.

Failure

Execution aborted.

root@HansenUbuntu:/tmp/vmware-tools-distrib#



how to do next?

[zsun666]

vmware tools安装出现异常并退出，然后再次安装时就会有这个提示。

解决方法：
1.首先删除etc/vmware-tools文件夹
2.cd /tmp
rm -rf vm*

这样就可以重新安装vmware tools了。
具体的安装方法可以参考http://forum.ubuntu.org.cn/viewtopic.php?t=16907
我也是照这个帖子安装成功的