On Sunday 15 November 2015 14:46:51 Peter Merchant wrote:
> On 15/11/15 13:16, Terry Coles wrote:
> > 3. I used to use VMWare at work and so it was a simple switch. For me it
> > 'just works'; the installation script does everything necessary,
> > including prompting to install the VMWare Tools add-on, without any need
> > to find the right version yourself on the website as you do with VBox.
> Well, It's not quite that simple. It now wants Gcc installed and the
> package manager says it has it, but the path doesn't exist.
Hmm. I never had that problem, I got the message, installed gcc and stepped
on.
> it also wanted a key, but was happy to skip over it.
You need to read the licence text. Basically that dialogue is there for
commercial users who have
purchased the product. Use of the tool is free to non-commercial users and you
will never get nagged
for the key.
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