I ran into this error the other night and wanted to make a quick post on it while installing VMware tools into Backtrack Linux. Unable to create symlink “/etc/cups/ppd/VMware_Virtual_Printer.ppd” pointing to file “/usr/lib/vmware-tools/configurator/thinprint.ppd”. Execution aborted. There’s a really quick solution to this. Backtrack (5 R2) has cups installed by default so that’s not the problem, …
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Dec 07 2009
VMware Tools Fail During Upgrade / Uninstall
As I’ve upgraded my lab environment to vSphere over the weekend, I’ve been running across the occasional VM that fails to allow me to upgrade it’s VMware Tools. This seems to be predominantly happening with my Windows Server 2008 VMs. I’ve received various error messages including ‘can’t find vmware tools.msi’ looking at c:\windows\installers, and messages …
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