Hello

I'm running:
Linux kali-h 3.7-trunk-686-pae #1 SMP Debian 3.7.2-0+kali8 i686 GNU/Linux

I followed these steps first to prep for the VMware Tools install:
http://forums.kali.org/showthread.ph...fix-for-vmware


1. Make sure you got these sources listed in your /etc/apt/sources.list (I had only one but not the other which was my problem)
deb http://http.kali.org/kali kali main contrib non-free
deb http://security.kali.org/kali-security kali/updates main contrib non-free

2. Only after you can update and upgrade
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

3. Now you can successfully install the headers without getting the "package not found error". I used the following command:
apt-get install gcc make linux-headers-$(uname -r)

4. This should successfully install the headers and now you can install vmware successfully



Then I ran:
apt-get install open-vm-tools

and that seemed to have gone well (no errors). I rebooted the VM, and although I have copy/paste and shared folders enabled in the machine settings, this isn't working (no copy/paste for example)


Any ideas? I was hoping using the package manager to install would work...

When I try to install VMware tools manually I get errors like this:

Initializing...

Use of uninitialized value $subLevel in split at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 5399.
Use of uninitialized value $subLevel in concatenation (.) or string at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 5400.
Argument "7-trunk-686-pae" isn't numeric in multiplication (*) at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 4958.
Use of uninitialized value $subLevel in addition (+) at /usr/bin/vmware-config-tools.pl line 4958.




Thanks