How To Install open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 is User experience components for Open Virtual Machine Tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64

This package contains only the user-space programs and libraries of open-vm-tools that are essential for improved user experience of VMware virtual machines.

We can use yum to install open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64.

Install open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64

How To Uninstall open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64

open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/xdg/autostart/vmware-user.desktop
/usr/bin/vmware-user
/usr/bin/vmware-user-suid-wrapper
/usr/bin/vmware-vmblock-fuse
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmusr
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmusr/libdesktopEvents.so
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmusr/libdndcp.so
/usr/lib64/open-vm-tools/plugins/vmusr/libresolutionSet.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install open-vm-tools-desktop.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.