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    Upgrading VMware tools on Kali Linux running on VMware Workstation 10

    Hi Guys

    I am having a lot of trouble upgrading VMware Tools.

    I ran the Software Update menu option from the Kali Menu and developed problems with VMware tools thereafter.

    Error message is as follows:

    apt-get install auto-apt
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these:
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    open-vm-tools-desktop : Depends: open-vm-tools (= 2:9.2.3-1031360-5~kali1) but 2:9.4.0-1280544-8kali1 is to be installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution).


    I have run "apt-get -f install" to no avail

    Kali version is: Linux kali 3.12-kali1-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.12.6-2kali1 (2014-01-06) x86_64 GNU/Linux

    I have looked through the forums and cannot find a similar problem to this.

    Does anyone have a suggestion for getting out of this?

    Cheers
    Paul

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    Can you purge the install of open-vm-tools-desktop (of which open-vm-tools is a dependency) and then reinstall open-vm-tools-desktop?

    Where did you retrieve this error from? it's curious that it starts with 'apt-get install auto-apt' as that does not have open-vm-tools-* as a dependency.

    If I were a betting man, I would say that open-vm-tools-desktop needs to be removed as it's old and the open-vm-tools is new. Have you run a apt-get update && apt-get autoremove?

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    Quote Originally Posted by staticn0de View Post
    Can you purge the install of open-vm-tools-desktop (of which open-vm-tools is a dependency) and then reinstall open-vm-tools-desktop?

    Where did you retrieve this error from? it's curious that it starts with 'apt-get install auto-apt' as that does not have open-vm-tools-* as a dependency.

    If I were a betting man, I would say that open-vm-tools-desktop needs to be removed as it's old and the open-vm-tools is new. Have you run a apt-get update && apt-get autoremove?
    It seems that nothing will remove the old version of VMware tools. I have tried all the suggestions in the forum to to avail.

    I just tried your last suggestion and as usual this is the result:
    root@kali:~# apt-get autoremove
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    open-vm-tools-desktop : Depends: open-vm-tools (= 2:9.2.3-1031360-5~kali1) but 2:9.4.0-1280544-8kali1 is installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
    root@kali:~#

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    Quote Originally Posted by dono_ns View Post
    It seems that nothing will remove the old version of VMware tools. I have tried all the suggestions in the forum to to avail.

    I just tried your last suggestion and as usual this is the result:
    root@kali:~# apt-get autoremove
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these.
    The following packages have unmet dependencies:
    open-vm-tools-desktop : Depends: open-vm-tools (= 2:9.2.3-1031360-5~kali1) but 2:9.4.0-1280544-8kali1 is installed
    E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.
    root@kali:~#
    Ah, it's playing hard ball.

    Well, try this. Bit of a warning, it can make the package management system unhappy and could break things. But it's already not working.

    The idea here is to remove everything and reinstall it (the vm tools that is)

    Use

    dpkg --remove open-vm-tools-desktop

    And if needed

    dpkg --remove open-vm-tools

    Now use

    apt-get update
    apt-get autoremove
    apt-get install open-vm-tools-desktop

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