Linux, "check for update" says no update but there is

[bclements]

I am running workstation 6.0.0 build-45731 on Ubuntu 7.10 64 bit

When I choose Help / Check for updates on the web, it always says "no updates available".

However I see that 6.0.2 is available. I have downloaded Vmware-workstation-6.0.2-59824.x86_64.tar.gz

Can I just install that over my existing installation?

Why doesn't "check for updates" work? I tried it as both a regular user and as root.

[wcattey]

I'm disappointed that there's been no response to this question.

Now it's April 2008, version 6.0.3 is replacing 6.0.2, but on the Linux platform, the command

"Check for Update on the Web" always replies: "No new updates are available." just as it did

back in November under version 6.0.0.

Colleagues running VMware Workstation under Windows are taken to the update download page.

If I go manually to the download page, as message 891693 says to do, I can indeed get the

6.0.3 version.

Should this be reported as a defect in VMware Workstation for Linux?

[AWo]

I don't know how ubuntu is configured for updates, but does networking in the guest work at all (ping host, gateway, can you browse)?

AWo

[wcattey]

I should have mentioned: This behavior manifests from the command issued in the VMware Workstation program running as the host of guest VMs. My host is not running Ubuntu, it's running Red Hat Enterprise 5 x86_64.

Tihs is NOT a guest OS issue. This is a VMware Workstation issue. It's not about an update VMware Tools, it's about properly detecting updates to VMware Workstation.