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Uewd
May 2nd, 2011, 03:17 PM
I installed VMware Player 3.1.4 on my PC which I downloaded from here (https://www.vmware.com/tryvmware/p/activate.php?p=player&lp=1&a=DOWNLOAD_FILE&baseurl=https://download2.vmware.com/software/wkst/&filename=VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.i386.bundle). I installed it by this method:
cd (location)
eg: cd /media/storage/downloads/

then

sudo sh filename.bundle
eg: sudo sh VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.i386.bundle
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Now I want to remove it, but how?
Please help.
Thanks.
Uewd.
lechien73
May 2nd, 2011, 03:35 PM
Do you have the vmware-installer in /usr/bin? If so, then:


vmware-installer -u vmware-player

should remove it :)
Uewd
May 2nd, 2011, 04:40 PM
Do you have the vmware-installer in /usr/bin? If so, then:


vmware-installer -u vmware-playershould remove it :)

HOW TO REMOVE VMWARE PLAYER 3.1.4:

1. Press Alt+F2 on the keyboard to open the Run Application dialog and paste this command in the box: gksu /usr/bin/x-terminal-emulator

Note:
The above command opens terminal as root. If you didn't run terminal as root, you will face an error during the second step.

2. Now run this command in terminal (Thanks for the user "lechien73" for providing this trick): vmware-installer -u vmware-player

3. Continue with the uninstallation process.

Hope this helps.
Thanks.
Uewd.
oiram
July 4th, 2011, 01:37 PM
tested with VMware Player 3.1.3 and works as well
sdino
July 30th, 2011, 11:57 AM
Hi,

Had tried the command but unable to uninstall vmware player - basically, it requires to shut down all VM's to continue the command.

root@ubuntu:/home/slimer# vmware-installer -l
Product Name Product Version
====================== ====================
vmware-player 3.1.4.385536
root@ubuntu:/home/slimer# vmware-installer -u vmware-player

Error:
The VMware installer could not shut down all running virtual machines. if you have ace vm's open, please shut them down or suspend them now ans press "RETRY" to continue.

Thanks
sdino
July 30th, 2011, 12:03 PM
Hi,

Please ignore my last comment as problem solved.

> Had unstalled VMware server 2.0.2 by issue this command:

sudo vmware-uninstall.pl

> Then unstall VMware player by running this command:

root@ubuntu:/home/slimer# vmware-installer -l
Product Name Product Version
====================== ====================
vmware-player 3.1.4.385536
root@ubuntu:/home/slimer# vmware-installer -u vmware-player
root@ubuntu:/home/slimer# vmware-installer -l
bash: /usr/bin/vmware-installer: No such file or directory
root@ubuntu:/home/slimer#

Thanks