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Installing open-vm-tools on CentOS

Just a quick post here today. This is in regards to installing open-vm-tools on CentOS. There's no need to download and install separate epel-release files…

Karl NyenLinuxVMware1 min readFrom the archive
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Just a quick post here today. This is in regards to installing open-vm-tools on CentOS. There’s no need to download and install separate epel-release files anymore as it’s now in the CentOS extras repo directly.

To install them, just use this command, then install open-vm-tools.

yum -y --enablerepo=extras install epel-release

- extras is enabled by default but the --enablerepo caters for those that have disabled it.

Enjoy!

Karl Nyen

Writing about virtualization, home lab, cloud, storage and gaming on vSkilled, started in 2014.

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