Public bug reported:
( I do know the package, it's vmware-server but launchpad would not let
me enter that )
I do not have an eth0 on my machine ( only eth1 and ath0 ) when I try to
install vmware-server I get this output /error:
Do you want networking for your virtual machines? (yes/no/help) [yes]
Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0.
Your computer has multiple ethernet network interfaces available: ath0, eth1.
Which one do you want to bridge to vmnet0? [eth0]
The ethernet device "eth0" was not detected on your system. Available ethernet
devices detected on your system include ath0, eth1. Are you sure you want to
use this device? (yes/no) [no]
Invalid default answer!
Execution aborted.
The error is in the script /usr/bin/vmware-config-network.pl which I can
run successfully from the terminal but fails in apt because it is not
interactive ( I cannot tell it to use eth1 instead of eth0 ). I
successfully installed vmware in apt by replacing all instances of
"eth0" in /usr/bin/vmware-config-network.pl with "eth1" but it seems
that this script should be made interactive even if the questions are
given a low priority so that problems like this can be solved without
editing the script and so preferences can easily be changed with dpkg-
reconfigure.
** Affects: app-install-data-commercial (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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vmware-server install ( from Feisty commercial repository ) fails if you don't
have an eth0
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112492
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