On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 15:35 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: > Hi David, > > make sure gcc is installed.
gcc is the latest version according to apt-get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-05-26 22:10 /usr/bin/gcc -> gcc-4.1 gcc-4.0 also exists, but isn't symlinked. Should I uninstall it? > if you've got an old version, uninstall it first. > I run rpm -i VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm (or whatever version) > after you've installed run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl > I was using apt-get, which seems to configure as part of the installation, and installs vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb . I get as far as a vmware configuration gui, which looks fine until I click on the "power on" button, but then fails with a message which simply says "error". I don't know if this relates to the linux-headers issue or not. All I know is that it doesn't work :( If the linux-headers version DOES matter, I can't see how to get around the packaging problem. I'm using 2.6.20-15, but the package insists on 2.6.20-16 and try as I might, I can't get past that. I've fiddled around with different package installation sequences including using dkpg -i one package at a time, but the apt insists that on doing it the way it wants to. I've already installed linux-headers for 2.6.20-15 (successfully) but vmware insists on an upgrade to 16. It looks like maybe the vmware-server deb package has got ahead of the kernel package. (I believe there were some problems with 2.6.20-16) I would be really happy if someone would tell me I'm wrong. Failing that, how to resolve the tarball problem (below). many thanks... David. > do you get that far? > Ben > > > > david wrote: > > I'm getting some conflicts (?) with the feisty vmware package: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ uname -a > > Linux test 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr 15 07:34:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo apt-get install vmware-server > > The following NEW packages will be installed > > vmware-server vmware-server-kernel-modules > > vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16 > > > > VMware installs, configures, but fails to power up. > > vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 is in the repository but I have > > no idea how to get apt-get to install it appropriately. > > > > > > I tried installing from tar, but the installer asks for > > linux-headers-386 but isn't happy with > > /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.20-15-386/ > > Are they the same thing? should I put in a symlink perhaps? > > > > What's more annoying is that my friend has apt-get installed vmware on > > feisty without any issues and it works perfectly :( > > > > > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html