I can no longer install `open-vm-tools-deploypkg`

[rallyvmware]

I am running CentOS7 Guest and we had previously been installing the "deployPkg" plugin. Something appears to have changed over the weekend.

When I run the command: "sudo yum install open-vm-tools-deploypkg" this returns:

Loaded plugins: fastestmirror

Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile

* base: mirror.sjc02.svwh.net

* elrepo: elrepo.org

* extras: repos-lax.psychz.net

* updates: repos-lax.psychz.net

base                                                                                                                                                                                                                       | 3.6 kB  00:00:00    

docker-ce-stable                                                                                                                                                                                                           | 3.5 kB  00:00:00    

elrepo                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 2.9 kB  00:00:00    

extras                                                                                                                                                                                                                     | 3.4 kB  00:00:00    

updates                                                                                                                                                                                                                    | 3.4 kB  00:00:00    

vmware-tools                                                                                                                                                                                                               |  951 B  00:00:00    

vmware-tools/primary           FAILED                                                                                                                                                                              0.0 B/s |    0 B  00:00:00    

http://packages.vmware.com/packages/rhel7/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum                                                                                         0.0 B/s |    0 B  00:00:00    

Trying other mirror.

vmware-tools/primary                                                                                                                                                                                                       |  962 B  00:00:00    

http://packages.vmware.com/packages/rhel7/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

Trying other mirror.

One of the configured repositories failed (VMware Tools),

and yum doesn't have enough cached data to continue. At this point the only

safe thing yum can do is fail. There are a few ways to work "fix" this:

     1. Contact the upstream for the repository and get them to fix the problem.

     2. Reconfigure the baseurl/etc. for the repository, to point to a working

        upstream. This is most often useful if you are using a newer

        distribution release than is supported by the repository (and the

        packages for the previous distribution release still work).

     3. Run the command with the repository temporarily disabled

            yum --disablerepo=vmware-tools ...

     4. Disable the repository permanently, so yum won't use it by default. Yum

        will then just ignore the repository until you permanently enable it

        again or use --enablerepo for temporary usage:

            yum-config-manager --disable vmware-tools

        or

            subscription-manager repos --disable=vmware-tools

     5. Configure the failing repository to be skipped, if it is unavailable.

        Note that yum will try to contact the repo. when it runs most commands,

        so will have to try and fail each time (and thus. yum will be be much

        slower). If it is a very temporary problem though, this is often a nice

        compromise:

            yum-config-manager --save --setopt=vmware-tools.skip_if_unavailable=true

failure: repodata/primary.xml.gz from vmware-tools: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

http://packages.vmware.com/packages/rhel7/x86_64/repodata/primary.xml.gz: [Errno -1] Metadata file does not match checksum

With the checksum error I believe this to be on the VMWare side of the equation. Who do I contact to fix this problem? Does a fix exist? Or other mirrors to try?

[geneliverman]

Per VMware Knowledge Base it looks like this isn't needed any more:

open-vm-tools version 9.10.0 and later includes the functionality provided by open-vm-tools-deploypkg and there is no need to install this additional package. open-vm-tools-deploypkg will conflict with open-vm-tools 9.10.0 and later therefore it should be uninstalled before upgrading to open-vm-tools 9.10.0 or later.

[Kev_Johnson]

Hi - it seems that we've had some issues with the caching on our content delivery network over the last few days which have taken a little while to nail down. I believe that this is now resolved - could you re-test and confirm if you're still seeing this issue?

[dru1d]

Just checked and got the same error

[Kev_Johnson]

Are you running RHEL7 or a derivative of it, and if not could I ask that you open a new thread with the details of your issue please dru1d​?

[Kev_Johnson]

As discussed on Twitter - VMware do not provide OSP packages for vmware-tools for RHEL7 and it's derivatives (which is what you're pulling), and open-vm-tools should be sourced from your distribution's base repositories (open-vm-tools is supported through the distro). In the case of the OP the problem was caused because rallyvmware didn't have perl installed.