[Bug 1790427] Re: Automatically install open-vm-tools when installer running in a VMware VM

[Christian Ehrhardt ]

Hi,
open-vm-tools already is in main and so is the source [1]
Therefore all you need to get open-vm-tools-desktop to main is to seed it (or add a dependency at the right place from your installer if that is better for you).
It is ready and the component mismatch can be fixed up by an AA then.

@Jibel - about the need for libncursesw5 I'd ask you to file a new bug
with more details what happens, and what is missing. That sounds like a
Recommends: libncursesw5 missing on some open-vm-tools package right?
libncursesw5 is in main as well already, so adding that isn't a problem
we just need to ensure this really is what we need.

[1]: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/open-vm-
tools/+bug/1220950

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Title:
  Automatically install open-vm-tools when installer running in a VMware
  VM

Status in debian-installer package in Ubuntu:
  New
Status in open-vm-tools package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete
Status in subiquity package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in open-vm-tools package in Debian:
  New

Bug description:
  It is valuable for open-vm-tools to install automatically for both
  desktop and server if their OS installer detects that it is running on
  a VMware VM.

  This may require first work with the Debian community to get this implemented for Debian since Ubuntu is based on Debian.
  [Debian bug#782287]
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=782287

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