VMware Workstation的Ubuntu虚拟机中安装VMWare Tools

期间，重新安装VMWare Tools，结果又遇到之前就遇到的那个提示：

Enter the path to the kernel header files...?

1.参考：

Error while validating for Ubuntu 12.10 Kernel headers

去安装对应版本的linux source，结果是本身就已经安装好了：

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crifan@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree       Reading state information... Done linux-headers-3.8.0-27-generic is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:   dkms fakeroot g++-4.7 libdumbnet1 libstdc++6-4.7-dev zerofree Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. crifan@ubuntu:~$

2. sudo apt-get update&&sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

3.可以先去看看自己此处是否对应目录已有头文件，结果是有的：

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crifan@ubuntu:~$ ls /usr/src/linux- linux-headers-3.8.0-19/         linux-headers-3.8.0-27/         linux-source-3.2.0/ linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic/ linux-headers-3.8.0-27-generic/ linux-source-3.2.0.tar.bz2 crifan@ubuntu:~$ ls /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0- linux-headers-3.8.0-19/         linux-headers-3.8.0-27/         linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic/ linux-headers-3.8.0-27-generic/ crifan@ubuntu:~$ ls /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-27-generic/ arch    Documentation  fs       ipc      kernel    mm              samples   sound   usr block   drivers        include  Kbuild   lib       Module.symvers  scripts   tools   virt crypto  firmware       init     Kconfig  Makefile  net             security  ubuntu crifan@ubuntu:~$ ls /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-27-generic/include acpi         clocksource  crypto  generated  keys   math-emu  memory  net     ras   rxrpc  sound   trace  video asm-generic  config       drm     Kbuild     linux  media     misc    pcmcia  rdma  scsi   target  uapi   xen crifan@ubuntu:~$

所以，手动输入对应的路径，但是还是提示是非法的路径：

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Searching for a valid kernel header path... The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel headers. Would you like to change it? [yes]    Enter the path to the kernel header files for the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel? /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-27-generic/include    The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-27-generic/include" is not a valid path to the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel headers. Would you like to change it? [yes]

又试了试，其他几个header，结果也还是不行：

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crifan@ubuntu:~$ uname -r 3.8.0-27-generic crifan@ubuntu:~$ ls /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19/include acpi         clocksource  drm     keys   math-emu  memory  net     ras   rxrpc  sound   trace  video asm-generic  crypto       Kbuild  linux  media     misc    pcmcia  rdma  scsi   target  uapi   xen crifan@ubuntu:~$ ls /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic/include acpi         clocksource  crypto  generated  keys   math-emu  memory  net     ras   rxrpc  sound   trace  video asm-generic  config       drm     Kbuild     linux  media     misc    pcmcia  rdma  scsi   target  uapi   xen crifan@ubuntu:~$ ls /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-27-generic/include acpi         clocksource  crypto  generated  keys   math-emu  memory  net     ras   rxrpc  sound   trace  video asm-generic  config       drm     Kbuild     linux  media     misc    pcmcia  rdma  scsi   target  uapi   xen crifan@ubuntu:~$ ls /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-27/include acpi         clocksource  drm     keys   math-emu  memory  net     ras   rxrpc  sound   trace  video asm-generic  crypto       Kbuild  linux  media     misc    pcmcia  rdma  scsi   target  uapi   xen crifan@ubuntu:~$

和：

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Enter the path to the kernel header files for the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel? /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19/include          The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19/include" is not a valid path to the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel headers. Would you like to change it? [yes] yes    Enter the path to the kernel header files for the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel? /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic/include    The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-19-generic/include" is not a valid path to the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel headers. Would you like to change it? [yes] yes    Enter the path to the kernel header files for the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel? /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-27-generic/include    The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-27-generic/include" is not a valid path to the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel headers. Would you like to change it? [yes] yes    Enter the path to the kernel header files for the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel? /usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-27/include    The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-3.8.0-27/include" is not a valid path to the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel headers. Would you like to change it? [yes] yes    Enter the path to the kernel header files for the 3.8.0-27-generic kernel?

4.去试试：

sudo apt-get update  
sudo apt-get install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc make

结果根本找不到：

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crifan@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install kernel-headers kernel-devel gcc make Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree       Reading state information... Done E: Unable to locate package kernel-headers E: Unable to locate package kernel-devel crifan@ubuntu:~$

5.去重启Ubuntu。

然后再去安装build-essential：

sudo apt-get install build-essential

再去安装linux header：

sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

然后再去安装试试：

突然看到提示说之前安装了open-vm-tools，会有冲突，

所以，手动去卸载：

sudo apt-get autoremove open-vm-tools

再重新安装，结果竟然还是检测到已经安装了open-vm-tools，然后还由于无法继续调用

/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl

而终于运行了。

最后的最后，还是通过，重新安装open-vm-tools，而得以正常的使用文件夹共享，但是剪贴板共享，还是不行。

6.去修改vmware-install.pl，但是，此刻，就只是之前的错误：

无法继续安装vmware-install.pl了。

因为：

始终出错，显示：

cannot execute /usr/bin/vmware-uninstall-tools.pl

而去/usr/bin下面看了看，的确没有vmware-uninstall-tools.pl

导致：

无论如何，都无法继续安装或卸载当前的vmware tools了。。。

7.后来是发现，本身vmware-tools下面有个bin目录，其下就有个vmware-uninstall-tools.pl，所以sudo cp一下到/usr/bin中后，再去执行，就可以找到此文件了。

【总结】

最后，还是通过：

先卸载之前的open-vm-tools

再安装vmware-tools.pl

再安装open-vm-tools

而解决了所有问题，使得可以：

剪贴板共享可用，文件共享可用。

没有找到其他更好的办法。