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To install VMWare tools using YUM on CentOS/RHEL 6.5, do the following.

Note, I’m logged in as the ‘root’ user, but you could execute these commands using ‘sudo’ as well.

Step 1: Download and import GPG keys

[root@techedemic /var/tmp]# wget http://packages.vmware.com/tools/keys/VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub
[root@techedemic /var/tmp]# rpm --import VMWARE-PACKAGING-GPG-RSA-KEY.pub

Step 2: Add VMWare repository

# Create/Modify  /etc/yum.repos.d/vmware-tools.repo, I use 'vim' as an editor
[root@techedemic /var/tmp]# vim /etc/yum.repos.d/vmware-tools.repo

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yum (RHEL/CentOs/SL/etc) has an option which allows you to limit the download rate/amount of bandwidth used to download packages. Here’s how you do it:

Edit the /etc/yum.conf file and add the following line:

 
throttle=50k

The above entry will limit the download rate to 50 kilobytes per second (note, not kilobits) when you do any yum command such as yum install or yum groupinstall , etc.

For Ubuntu/Debian users that use apt, please see this post

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Hi,

I tried using SOAP::Lite with Perl recently and kept getting the following error on my server when trying to execute my Perl script:

techedemic@techedemic.com:~/dev/scripts$ ./soap.pl
Can't locate Class/Inspector.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.10.1 /usr/local/share/perl/ hare/perl/5.10.1/SOAP/Lite.pm line 435.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at /usr/local/share/perl/5.10.1/SOAP/Lite.pm line 435.
Compilation failed in require at ./soap.pl line 3.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./soap.pl line 3.

The solution was quite simple, although finding it on the internet was not as simple.

Just do the following to install the required class:

sudo apt-get install libclass-inspector-perl

Voila, it’s working as expected.

If you are using RHEL or CentOS, you could do the following (I did not test this but found it at this link :

yum install 'perl(Class::Inspector)'

Hope this helps someone out there!

Cheers