{"id":116,"date":"2011-06-15T09:22:20","date_gmt":"2011-06-15T08:22:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/?p=116"},"modified":"2011-06-15T09:22:20","modified_gmt":"2011-06-15T08:22:20","slug":"vmware-tools-konnen-nicht-installierd-werden-a-previous-installation-of-vmware-tools-has-been-detected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/?p=116","title":{"rendered":"VMware Tools k\u00f6nnen nicht installierd werden&#8230;&#8220;A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected&#8220;&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre class=\"code\">Failure to install VMware Tools: Cannot find the answer BINDIR in the installer database\nDetails\nIf a VMware Tools installation is stopped before it can set the BINDIR (which occurs after the first prompted question), the installer is stopped prematurely and displays the following message:\n\nA previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected.\n\nThe previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4).\n\nKeeping the tar4 installer database format.\nYou have a version of VMware Tools installed. Continuing this install will\nfirst uninstall the currently installed version. Do you wish to continue?\n(yes\/no) [yes]\n\nIf you select yes, the following error message appears:\n\nError: Unable to find the binary installation directory (answer BINDIR)\nin the installer database file \"\/etc\/vmware-tools\/locations\".\n\nUninstall failed. Please correct the failure and re run the install.\n\nExecution aborted.<\/pre>\n<p>Solution:<\/p>\n<p>To solve this issue, remove the \/etc\/vmware-tools\/locations file and reinstall VMware Tools.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kb.vmware.com\/selfservice\/microsites\/search.do?language=en_US&amp;cmd=displayKC&amp;externalId=1013159\" target=\"_blank\">VMware Original Link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Failure to install VMware Tools: Cannot find the answer BINDIR in the installer database Details If a VMware Tools installation is stopped before it can set the BINDIR (which occurs after the first prompted question), the installer is stopped prematurely and displays the following message: A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-vmware","et-bg-layout-dark","et-white-bg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freddy.afers.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}