pete@debbox:~/vmware-server-distrib$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.
Failure
Execution aborted.
pete@debbox:~/vmware-server-distrib$ cd bin/
pete@debbox:~/vmware-server-distrib/bin$ sudo ./vmware-uninstall.pl
Uninstalling the tar installation of VMware Server.
Unable to find the answer INITSCRIPTSDIR in the installer database
(/etc/vmware/locations). You may want to re-install VMware Server.
Execution aborted.
pete@debbox:~/vmware-server-distrib/bin$