Spent an hour trying to install vmware tools. It’s so easy in other distros I’m evaluating for a switch from windows, zorin, mint, etc. But in kubuntu it’s pain and I’m still wrestling with it. In other distros, you just click install on the vmware menu and it’s done. Yet in this supposedly wonderfully easy kubuntu I apparently have to unpackage the install package somewhere, find it, make it executable, and finally run it with perl, after I install a clean version because the release version has some kind of locale issue. Still doesn’t work, fails with some kind of perl script errors. Chapgpt has been helpful, and got me around a bunch of things I’m relearning, but I’m about to give up on Kubuntu even though I love what I’m seeing in terms of controlling how things look and work. Any big picture help would be appreciated. Has anybody made this work? Should I try a reinstall of kubuntu, is 24.10 with plasma 6.1.5 a flaky version?
welcome, the LTS version is preferable to the development branch which can have things missing or not working correctly.
i don’t see vmware listed in discover via .deb, flatpak or snap… so you would be on your own locating and installing a source downloaded from the web.
there are a few packages i run that are downloaded as either a .deb or an appimage and those can require varying amounts of additional work to get running properly.
normally a .deb is simply a right click and install using the package manager… assuming there are no missing dependencies or conflicts.
an appimage will need to be made executable, but should otherwise just run by double clicking on it.
You may have to ask vmware, but just judging from the (k)ubuntu codenames shown at the official source (and as it is closed source, if I’m not mistaken, that is probably the only source) they may not (fully) support anything current as the “latest” package is for 12.04(?)