Vmware workstation12 encountered A problem when installing VMware tools: A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected solution, detected

Vmware workstation12 encountered A problem when installing VMware tools: A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected solution, detected

Vmware workstation12 installed in win10 has the following problems when installing VMware tools:

Root @ lc:/root/vmware-tools-distrib #./vmware-install.pl
A previous installation of VMware Tools has been detected.

The previous installation was made by the tar installer (version 4 ).

Keeping the tar4 installer database format.

You have a version of VMware Tools installed. Continuing this install will
First uninstall the currently installed version. Do you want to continue?
(Yes/no) [yes]

....

Solution:

root@lc:/root/vmware-tools-distrib# rm -rf /etc/vmware-tools

root@lc:/root/vmware-tools-distrib# rm -rf /tmp/vm*

root@lc:/root/vmware-tools-distrib# ./vmware*.pl