On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:47 AM, Alan Buxton <alanbuxton@gmail.com> wrote:
I’ve been having all kinds of problems with getting vmware tools installed on a sufficiently new version of Ubuntu to get a more up to cabal.

open-vm-tools{,-desktop} doesn't work? I've been using it in Mint. (In general, the "official" vmware tools don't keep up with open source OSes very well.)

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