Re: how to install as commandline app

[Dmitry T. <dt...@vm...>]

Hi,

On Tuesday, March 13, 2012 11:45:20 PM eMyListsDDg wrote:
> Hallo,
> 
> i dl'd your open-vm-tools ver 8.6.0. i'm attempting to install on fedora 16
> 86_64 using xfce desktop. ok, so seems like *lots* of
> packages/devel-packages need to be dl'd. Host OS is windows server 2003
> with vm server 2.0.2
> 
> even with yum package manager too time consuming with so many missing
> packages for my xfce virtural machine. not your fault just i use xfce.
> 
> 
> q1. how to install without all these (i assume desktop required libs) extra
> libs? is there some general command line opts to issue so i can get this
> installed and running?

You can examine options presented by ./configure --help and disable 
functionality you deem unimportant.

> 
> q2. any functionality lost installing as a commanlind line app?

Yes, you lose desktop integration (automatic screen resize, cut-and-paste, 
drag-and-drop, etc).

You can also try using the version of VMwareTools that comes with the product 
and see if it works better for you.

Thanks,
Dmitry