Upgrading VMware tools on Kali Linux running on VMware Workstation 10

[dono_ns]

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

[staticn0de]

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?

[dono_ns]

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:~#

[staticn0de]

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