The official docs mention how to uninstall VMWare Workstation in Linux distros, but it works poorly in reality.
⟹ sudo vmware-installer -u vmware-workstation
All configuration information is about to be removed. Do you wish to
keep your configuration files? You can also input 'quit' or 'q' to
cancel uninstallation. [yes]:
Uninstalling VMware Installer 3.0.0
Deconfiguring...
[######################################################################] 100%
Uninstallation was successful.
Ist vmware-installer is asking two question at once,
- Do you wish to keep your configuration files?
- You can also input quit or q to cancel uninstallation.
If you target first question, and write "yes", then I suppose they keep the configuration files!
And if write, "no", then I suppose they delete everything! -------->> This is not technically a ture.
Whether you choose, yes or no, as an answer, you WILL get to see this:
⟹ ls /usr/bin/ | grep -i vm
vm-support
vmhgfs-fuse
vmstat
vmtoolsd
vmware-alias-import
vmware-checkvm
vmware-hgfsclient
vmware-installer -> /usr/lib/vmware-installer/3.0.0/vmware-installer
vmware-namespace-cmd
vmware-rpctool
vmware-toolbox-cmd
vmware-user -> vmware-user-suid-wrapper
vmware-user-suid-wrapper
vmware-vgauth-cmd
vmware-vmblock-fuse
vmware-xferlogs
vmwgfxctrl
vm-installer doesn't truly wipe your system clean. It will still leave some junk there to rot forever!
Users to manually find each VMware tool/script inside the sensitive directory to manually wipe it out.
This is not a good approach. vm-installer command is designed in such a poor way! A half cleaning mechanism.
If this was a graphical uninstall, I would have said nothing. But this is a sudo permission requiring script and it works like this. VM-Installer -u have literally 1 job.
Please fix this. Don't bloat the system unnecessarily.
