VMware VIX + Debian 10 Buster install problem

jakubkameleon — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 18:33:31 GMT

Hi could some one give me a clue how to fix this? I trying install VMware-VIX-1.15.4-4352439.x86_64.bundle on my Debian 10. I have installed VMware Workstation 15.5.1 build-15018445.

During installation I gets such errors:

pretender@ThinkPad:~/Downloads$ sudo sh VMware-VIX-1.15.4-4352439.x86_64.bundle

Extracting VMware Installer...done.

(vmware-installer.py:22570): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

/usr/share/themes/Bubble-Dark-Blue/gtk-2.0/main.rc:1090: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'

/usr/share/themes/Bubble-Dark-Blue/gtk-2.0/apps.rc:91: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'

(vmware-installer.py:22570): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine",

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "atk-bridge": /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libatspi.so.0: undefined symbol: g_type_class_adjust_private_offset

Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Traceback (most recent call last):

File "/tmp/tmphultezw2.vmis.env", line 132, in <module>

exec(fileObj.read(), mod.__dict__)

File "<string>", line 265

except OSError, e:

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

Re: VMware VIX + Debian 10 Buster install problem

Rajhere — Tue, 07 Jan 2020 06:40:27 GMT

could you try the below work-arounds,

-> 1:

Work around 1:

cd /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32/libconf or /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib64/libconf
mkdir lib
cp gtk-2.0 lib/
logout and login again or kill vmtoolsd process and then start vmtoolsd by running this command:

/usr/lib/sbin64/vmtoolsd -n vmusr --blockFd 3 &

Note: We manually created /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32{lib64}/libconf/lib.When uninstalling the Tools by running /usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl, /usr/lib/vmware-tools/lib32{lib64}/libconf/lib will not be removed.
Manually remove /usr/lib/vmware-tools for a clean uninstall.

-> 2:

Work around 2:

Uninstall the tools by running /usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl
cd vmware-tools-distrib from uncompressed tools tarball
cd lib/lib32/libconf or lib/lib64/libconf
mkdir lib
cp gtk-2.0 lib/
Install the tools by running the command:

vmware-tools-distrib/vmware-install.pl

Notes:

In this case, uninstalling tools in future does not require any additional steps.
The following message may still be seen in the messages log:

[Gtk] gtk_disable_setlocale() must be called before gtk_init()

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