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 -- vmware-server install ( from Feisty commercial repository ) fails if you don't have an eth0 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/112492 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is the bug contact for Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs