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pzbrawl
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vmtools is broken, no vmtools installer

I'm running lubuntu in a win10 guest machine under vmware workstation 12.5.7 build-5813279. Folder sharing is enabled, the host folder is named and created but ...

- vmware tools can't find the shared folder

- nor can it find a vmware perl script needed to find the shared folder

So evidently vmware tools is broken. But "Update VMware Tools" from the WorkStation Player menu does not deposit a tools installer file on the lubuntu desktop, so there's no installer file to unpack and install.

How do I solve this?

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parmarr
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Hello,

Please see the below KB and also If shared folders are not working on certain Linux distributions after installing VMware tools ensure to install GCC :

Overview of VMware Tools (340) | VMware KB

Sincerely, Rahul Parmar VMware Support Moderator
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