download and install of VMWare Tools 10.1.0

[ivanachukapawn]

Setting up a CentOS 7 VM using VMWare Workstation 12.1.0,  I got a compilation error for VMWare Tools 10.0.0  I researched this problem and discovered that VMWare released VMWare Tools 10.1.0 to fix this problem.  So I downloaded VMWare Tools 10.1.0 (from MyVmware)  and got VMware-Tools-10.1.0-core-4449150.tar.gz  in my download directory.  This is not what I expected  -  the word "core" is in the downloaded file name  -  I had expected just a complete 10.1.0 tar.gz.  When I tar -xvf VMware-Tools-10.1.0-core-4449150.tar.gz   I do NOT get a vmware-tools-distrib  directory.  Please advise.  I do not see how I can use VMware-Tools-10.1.0-core-4449150.tar.gz

[wila]

Hi,

There's a bunch more for that as just the core part (just navigate the folders there, note that there's only rhel6 not rhel7)

https://packages.vmware.com/tools/releases/latest/index.html

Latest for Workstation 12.5.2 is 10.0.10 which is here:

https://softwareupdate.vmware.com/cds/vmw-desktop/ws/12.5.2/4638234/linux/packages/vmware-tools-linu...

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Wil

[ivanachukapawn]

In the download page that I was looking at, there was only one tar.gz available, and that has the word "core" in the file name.  Where is the tar.gz file for the whole thing?

Also,  the 10.0.10  version you mentioned may not solve the compilation error problem I encountered.  My research (via Google)  suggests that VMWare corrected the compilation error problem in release 10.1.0    -  but as you know,  I'm having trouble locating the tar.gz for the complete 10.1.0 version.