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After this operation, 630 kB disk space will be freed.
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Preparing to replace vmware-tools-foundation 8.6.5-2 (using .../vmware-tools-foundation_9.0.0-2_all.deb) ...
Unpacking replacement vmware-tools-foundation ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-tools-foundation_9.0.0-2_all.deb (--unpack):
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools/README', which is also in package vmware-tools-help 8.6.5-2
Fix:
cd /var/cache/apt/archives
dpkg --force-overwrite -i vmware-tools-foundation_9.0.0-2_all.deb
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Preparing to replace vmware-tools-foundation 8.6.5-2 (using vmware-tools-foundation_9.0.0-2_all.deb) ...
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dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools/README', which is also in package vmware-tools-help 8.6.5-2
dpkg: warning: overriding problem because --force enabled:
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/vmware-tools/open_source_licenses.txt.gz', which is also in package vmware-tools-help 8.6.5-2
Setting up vmware-tools-foundation (9.0.0-2) ...
apt-get install -f
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Correcting dependencies... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
vmware-tools-core vmware-tools-guestlib vmware-tools-libraries-nox
The following packages will be REMOVED:
vmware-tools-vmblock-modules-3.2.0-29-virtual
The following packages will be upgraded:
vmware-tools-core vmware-tools-guestlib vmware-tools-libraries-nox
3 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 12 not upgraded.
9 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0 B/6,934 kB of archives.
After this operation, 720 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
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Removing vmware-tools-vmblock-modules-3.2.0-29-virtual ...
vmblock stop/waiting
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-3.2.0-29-virtual
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Preparing to replace vmware-tools-guestlib 8.6.5-2 (using .../vmware-tools-guestlib_9.0.0-2_amd64.deb) ...
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Processing triggers for libc-bin ...
ldconfig deferred processing now taking place
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Setting up vmware-tools-core (9.0.0-2) ...