Newbie can't extract any WMtools files including the .pl one

[charlessmall18]

I just installed the VMware Player and the latest Ubuntu distribution on my Vista Home Premium 32-bit PC. Works like a charm except for installing VMtool. When I try to install it, I get the vittual CD/DVD ok. And I can find the distribution and the .tar.gz file inside it. And I can drill down and see all the files and folders inside it inlcuding  the perl script that I am suppsed to run to install VMtool but at that point everything comes to a screeching halt. None of the tools I have installed so far will let me extract anything from the compressed file because it says I don't have the right permissions and the thing I found that it looks like it might allow me to change the permissions won't let me. The compressed file is supposedly "read only" so I don't really understand why I can't estract all the files and folder from it. I am already half brain dead from wrestling with permissions in Vista. And now Linux!

HELP!

c h u c k _ p e t i t @ y a h o o . c o m

Signed: The Technomasochist

[WoodyZ]

Look in the VMware Player Help File for "Install VMware Tools in a Linux Guest" and follow the directions.

[indyodie]

Have you tried playing with the tar command?  Perhaps you could run tar --help for the full list of options.  Should be looking for something like tar xvf and then running the perl file to install the tools.

[WoodyZ]

First of all I'm not the one trying to install VMware Tools so why are you replying directly to my reply?

Secondly the directions for installing VMware Tools in a Linux Virtual Machine are documented in the Product Help Files as well as the VMware KB Installing VMware Tools in a Linux virtual machine using a Compiler (1018414) as well as other available documentation readily available at the VMware website, so there is no need to "run tar --help" and the OP just needs to read and follow the documentation, it's that simple!