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  • 1.  Permission denied error installing vmware tools

    Posted May 03, 2008 10:32 PM

    I have a brand new install of Kubuntu 8 with KDE 4 and have created the root user.

    I go into terminal and change to su and it accepts my password. I CD to the directory where I have extracted vmware tools and when I carry out the command ./vmware-install.pl, I get a permission denied error. I would only expect that error if I had not changed to su mode. Any ideas why this is happening?



  • 2.  RE: Permission denied error installing vmware tools

    Posted May 03, 2008 10:45 PM

    Personally I always login using root and the root password when installing VMware Tools and never have a permissions problem and I don't know if this makes a difference however the documentation for install VMware Tools in Linux states using "su -" and while the "-" may be optional in most cases maybe it's required since it's what in the documentation.



  • 3.  RE: Permission denied error installing vmware tools

    Posted May 04, 2008 05:13 AM

    I found this on Ubuntu forrums, it works:

    chmod +x vmware-install.pl

    permssions issue I guess fixed by above command.