Re: Installing Vmware v71

2010-10-12 Thread Steve Langasek
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 09:04:44PM -0400, Tong Sun wrote: > > > Thanks a lot, that's already good enough for me. Please tell me, > > ...but please don't tell debian-devel. (MFT set) > Sorry, but I really can't get it. He means that this has nothing to do with Debian development, so the appropria

Re: Installing Vmware v71

2010-10-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/10/2010 08:04 PM, Tong Sun wrote: > > Thanks a lot, that's already good enough for me. Please tell me, > > ...but please don't tell debian-devel. (MFT set) Sorry, but I really can't get it. All over the web, people from other distros are sharing how they can beat it, but I just can't fi

Re: Installing Vmware v71

2010-10-10 Thread Tong Sun
> > Thanks a lot, that's already good enough for me. Please tell me, > > ...but please don't tell debian-devel. (MFT set) Sorry, but I really can't get it. All over the web, people from other distros are sharing how they can beat it, but I just can't find a single post from Debian people how they

Re: Installing Vmware v71

2010-10-10 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 11:02:45AM -0400, Tong Sun wrote: > Thanks a lot, that's already good enough for me. Please tell me, ...but please don't tell debian-devel. (MFT set) -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: Installing Vmware v71

2010-10-10 Thread Tong Sun
> . . . If anyone can get VmWare-Workstation 7 installed on > Debian (Testing/Sid), I would very much like to hear your story. > > I installed it last week, v7.1.2. I had no trouble, worked like a > charm. Just invoked the installer. I did invoke it as root. I > really can't be more helpful . . .

Re: Installing Vmware v71

2010-10-09 Thread Mark Allums
If anyone can get VmWare-Workstation 7 installed on Debian (Testing/Sid), I would very much like to hear your story. Thanks a lot. I installed it last week, v7.1.2. I had no trouble, worked like a charm. Just invoked the installer. I did invoke it as root. I really can't be more helpf

Re: Installing Vmware v71

2010-10-09 Thread Tong Sun
On Sat, Oct 9, 2010 at 6:57 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> I'm having difficulties installing Vmware v71 under Debian Testing. >> I always get >> >>  gcc and kernel headers must be installed >> >> while doing "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all"

Installing Vmware v71

2010-10-09 Thread Tong Sun
[4th attempt, trying to play with keywords to circumvent the spam filter] Hi, I'm having difficulties installing Vmware v71 under Debian Testing. I always get  gcc and kernel headers must be installed while doing "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all", even though I got both