You have gotten this message because you are either downgrading VMware Workstation, Player, or VIX, or because you attempted to run either vmware-uninstall or vmware-uninstall-vix.
If you are downgrading, please uninstall all newer versions first, then install again.
The vmware-uninstall* scripts have been deprecated. Instead, please use the vmware-installer.
Long form: vmware-installer --uninstall-product PRODUCT Short form: vmware-installer -u PRODUCT
Where PRODUCT is one of vmware-workstation, vmware-player, or vmware-vix.
For a list of which products are installed, you may run: vmware-installer --list-products or: vmware-installer -l
[root@localhost ~]# vmware-installer -l Product Name Product Version ==================== ==================== vmware-workstation 9.0.0.812388