Install of Open-VM-Tools fails

[KOM]

Basic install of LiveCD from Nov 4.  Went to install Open-VM-Tools:

Beginning package installation for Open-VM-Tools .
Downloading package configuration file… done.
Saving updated package information... done.
Downloading Open-VM-Tools and its dependencies...
Checking for package installation...
Downloading https://files.pfsense.org/packages/10/All/open-vm-tools-1280544_6-amd64.pbi ...  (extracting)
Loading package configuration... done.
Configuring package components...
Loading package configuration... done.
Additional files... done.
Loading package instructions...
Custom commands...
Executing custom_php_install_command()...

Could not open /usr/local/etc/rc.d/vmware-guestd.sh for writing

[robvanhooren]

bump

[cmb]

the root of that issue is this. https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/4019

to work around, run the following at a command prompt before installing the package.

mkdir /usr/local/etc/rc.d