Can't UPDATE Parallels tools in Ubuntu and Fedora

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NicholasK

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Hello,

I'm a newcomer to Parallels and this forum, and I've been having some trouble with Linux OS's lately. When I run either Ubuntu or Fedora, I'm told that my Parallels tools are out of date, and that I should upgrade them. Now, it's all fine and dandy up to this point, but when I go to the menu and select Virtual Machine/Upgrade Parallels Tools, and the (fake) disk mounts, I can't install them. When I open the contents of the "disk" and select install, and then click run, nothing happens. When I click run in terminal, I get a message in the terminal shell which reads, "Error: you do not have permissions to run this script.
Please press 'Enter' to exit from Parallels Installer." My first thought was to unlock root access, but so far all of my attempts to do that have been unsuccessful. Similar things happen in Fedora. If anyone could help, I'd greatly appreciate it. I'm running both Ubuntu 11.04 and Fedora 15 in version 7 (the latest) of Parallels.

Thanks,
Nicholas.
 
Yes...

1) First mount the tools "disk" by doing Virtual Machine | Install / Reinstall Parallels Tools
2) Open a terminal window
3) cd /media/Parallels\ Tools/
4) sudo ./install
5) Enter your admin account password

This should work for Ubuntu and Fedora. I currently have a Ubuntu VM on Parallels 7, and I've installed Fedora previously on Parallels 6 (but haven't tried on 7 yet)
 
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Thank you SO much. I'm not kidding, I can't believe how stupid I was. I had all of these things, but I had no idea how to put them all together. Again, thanks a ton.
 
With something so relatively simple you would think the "Install/Update Parallels Tools" menu would do this. It would only take mounting the "disk", and running a script that did the "sudo ./install" part, and it would prompt you for your sudo password.

For those of us not versed in Unix/Linux at least this Forum is available.
 
Can't update tools in Terminal

I've tried following the instructions for updating the Parallels Tools in Ubuntu.
Everything goes well until after I enter my password.
Then "sudo: ./install: command not found" is returned in Terminal.

What am I doing wrong?
Thanks.
John
 
I can't install the latest Parallels Tools in Ubuntu 11.10. Attempting sudo ./install gives:

Code: 
./install: line 528:  3064 Segmentation fault      FLAG_CHECK_ASK="Yes" FLAG_CHECK_GUI="Yes" "$GUI_INSTALLER.$X32"

edit: this morning it worked.
 
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JEarles said:
Yes...

1) First mount the tools "disk" by doing Virtual Machine | Install / Reinstall Parallels Tools
2) Open a terminal window
3) cd /media/Parallels\ Tools/
4) sudo ./install
5) Enter your admin account password

This should work for Ubuntu and Fedora.
Click to expand...

YES! Thank you. I have Ubuntu 12.04 on a Macbook Pro Retina/Mountain Lion/Parallels 7.0.15104, and that worked perfectly. I tried a hundred different close combination NO GOs but thankfully this Google search - and YOU - came to my rescue!!

Thanks again!

Oly
 
try this:
first mount the parallels tools virtual disk by pressing the virtual machine menu then pressing the reinstall paralells tools button. Then
1. open terminal
2. type in the word "sudo" without the qoutes, then press the space bar
3. open the home folder, then click the cd icon that lays parallels tools next to it (its on the left side of the window)
4. drag the file called install into the terminal window
 
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