How To Install vmware-manager on Kali Linux
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vmware-manager
on Kali Linux.
What is vmware-manager
vmware-manager is:
This package provides vwm, a command-line tool for managing VMware virtual machines. This is primarily useful for larger installations where virtuals need to be migrated, cloned or otherwise modified from the command line.
vwm requires the non-free VMware Vsphere Perl SDK to be installed.
There are three methods to install vmware-manager
on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vmware-manager Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vmware-manager
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vmware-manager
Install vmware-manager Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vmware-manager
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vmware-manager
Install vmware-manager Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install vmware-manager
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vmware-manager
How To Uninstall vmware-manager on Kali Linux
To uninstall only the vmware-manager
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vmware-manager
Uninstall vmware-manager And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vmware-manager
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vmware-manager
Remove vmware-manager Configurations and Data
To remove vmware-manager
configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vmware-manager
Remove vmware-manager configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vmware-manager
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vmware-manager
Dependencies
vmware-manager have the following dependencies:
- perl
- libconfig-inifiles-perl
- libnumber-format-perl
- libterm-readkey-perl
- libtext-glob-perl
- libdata-dump-perl
- perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vmware-manager
package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.