Hi Lars,
I think they are actually the same packages.
If you look at open-vm-tools for example:
$ apt-cache show open-vm-tools
Package: open-vm-tools
...
Description-en: Open VMware Tools for virtual machines hosted on VMware (CLI)
I think some tools (especially gui tools) will show you this text
instead of the package name.
On Ubuntu 18.04 I'd right now expect the latest to be
"10.3.10-1~ubuntu0.18.04.1":
$ apt-cache policy open-vm-tools open-vm-tools-desktop
open-vm-tools:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2:10.3.10-1~ubuntu0.18.04.1
Version table:
2:10.3.10-1~ubuntu0.18.04.1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/main amd64
Packages
2:10.2.0-3ubuntu3 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 Packages
open-vm-tools-desktop:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 2:10.3.10-1~ubuntu0.18.04.1
Version table:
2:10.3.10-1~ubuntu0.18.04.1 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic-updates/universe amd64
Packages
2:10.2.0-3ubuntu3 500
500 http://de.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/universe amd64 Packages
And finally, no Mint has no newer packages on these (usually).
They use the same open-vm-tools that get published to normal Ubuntu.
But if you didn't run "apt update" you might still see the old versions since
your system doesn't yet know the new ones exist.
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