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OVF Tool on Linux

September 9 2018
77 words, ~1 min. read
ovftool,  linux,  administration 

Few months back, I downloaded and installed VMware's OVF Tool for Linux. Recently, I wanted to get the latest one installed.

The following steps helped me to uninstall the older one first and then install the recent one.

  1. Uninstall previous version
$ sudo ~/Downloads/VMware-ovftool-4.0.0-2301625-lin.x86_64.bundle --uninstall-product vmware-ovftool
  1. Install the latest version
$ sudo ~/Downloads/VMware-ovftool-4.3.0-7948156-lin.x86_64.bundle

Note: The bundle is a shell script, which can install as well as uninstall; run VMware-ovftool-<x.y.z-v-lin.x86_64.bundle --help to see various options of the bundle