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$