[solved]Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

[Fredh]

I have installed vmware player before and wanted to see if the new one worked with HH, so I know this is the right way:

fred1@fredws1:~/Downloads/VmwarePlayer2.03$ sudo ./vmware-install.pl
[sudo] password for fred1:
sudo: ./vmware-install.pl: command not found
fred1@fredws1:~/Downloads/VmwarePlayer2.03$

I get this with HH and GG ( both upgraded to today)?

Does anyone have an idea what I am missing??

Cheers

[dibl]

Re: Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

I'm still running 2.01 -- it is so stable, I think I'll wait to hear how your experience goes.

OK it looks like you are in the correct directory -- can you do "ls" to list the contents, and see that installer file? If you don't see the installer file, maybe you'll see another directory named "Install" or something like that. So you might need to "cd" to yet another directory under the one where you are, until you can see the file that you named correctly.

Alternatively, maybe bash has lost track of you down in that installation sub-directory. So, if the installer file is there, try

sudo /bin/bash sh ./vmware-install.pl

[Fenix-TX]

Re: Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

Perhaps it's a permission problems, try chmod +x vmware-install.pl

[Fredh]

Re: Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

sudo /bin/bash sh ./vmware-install.pl

didn't help.

chmod +x vmware-install.pl

did the trick

Thank you

Edit: Well almost:

First:
fred1@fredws1:~/Downloads/VmwarePlayer2.03$ chmod +x vmware-install.pl
fred1@fredws1:~/Downloads/VmwarePlayer2.03$ sudo ./vmware - install.plsudo: ./vmware: command not found
fred1@fredws1:~/Downloads/VmwarePlayer2.03$ sudo ./vmware-install.plCreating a new VMware Player installer database using the tar4 format.

Installing VMware Player.

The path "/usr/share/doc/vmware" does not exist currently. This program is
going to create it, including needed parent directories. Is this what you want?
[yes]

The installation of VMware Player 2.0.3 build-80004 for Linux completed
successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at any
time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall.pl".

Before running VMware Player for the first time, you need to configure it by
invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl". Do you want this
program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]

sh: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl: Permission denied
fred1@fredws1:~/Downloads/VmwarePlayer2.03$

:P

[Fenix-TX]

Re: Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

try running with sudo the command /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

[Fenix-TX]

Re: Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

It's very strange, i don't know what happens...sorry

[Fredh]

Re: Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

I don't know if this helps but I tried running ./runme.pl frommy vmware-any-any-116 folder and got this:

Quote
fred1@fredsw1:~/Downloads/vmware-any-any-update116/vmware-any-any-update-116/vmware-any-any-update116$ sudo ./runme.pl
Can't exec "/etc/vmware/installer.sh": Permission denied at ./runme.pl line 819 (#1)
(W exec) A system(), exec(), or piped open call could not execute the
named program for the indicated reason. Typical reasons include: the
permissions were wrong on the file, the file wasn't found in
$ENV{PATH}, the executable in question was compiled for another
architecture, or the #! line in a script points to an interpreter that
can't be run for similar reasons. (Or maybe your system doesn't support
#! at all.)

Unknown VMware version ? is installed. This installer supports only version 2
and 3.

Execution aborted.

fred1@fredws1:~/Downloads/vmware-any-any-update116/vmware-any-any-update-116/vmware-any-any-update116$



Edit:
Just for the hell of here are my groups:
adm, dialout, cdrom, floppy, sudo, audio, dip, video, plugdev, fuse, lpadmin, admin

UID=1000

[Fredh]

Re: Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

Thats okay Felix

Neither do I.
It must have something to do with ./ installation /configure pearl files/commands and permissions.

anyway here is my ls -l:

fred1@fredws1:~/Downloads/VmwarePlayer2.03$ ls -l
insgesamt 428
drwxr-xr-x 2 fred1 fred1 4096 2008-04-04 09:59 bin
drwxr-xr-x 2 fred1 fred1 4096 2008-04-04 09:59 doc
drwxr-xr-x 2 fred1 fred1 4096 2008-04-04 09:59 etc
-rw-r--r-- 1 fred1 fred1 395791 2008-04-04 09:59 FILES
drwxr-xr-x 2 fred1 fred1 4096 2008-04-04 09:59 installer
drwxr-xr-x 15 fred1 fred1 4096 2008-04-04 09:59 lib
drwxr-xr-x 2 fred1 fred1 4096 2008-04-04 09:59 sbin
drwxr-xr-x 3 fred1 fred1 4096 2008-04-04 09:59 system_etc
drwxr-xr-x 3 fred1 fred1 4096 2008-04-04 09:59 usr
-rw------- 1 fred1 users 6 2008-04-04 10:27 Vmware
lrwxrwxrwx 1 fred1 fred1 23 2008-04-04 09:59 vmware-install.pl -> bin/vmware-uninstall.pl
fred1@fredws1:~/Downloads/VmwarePlayer2.03$

But I know nothing about repairing that

[Fredh]

Re: Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

I now know what the problem was although not why.

I was in kde4 when I downloaded and unpacked vmware player with ark.

That must have screwed something with the permissions.

When I did the same thing in kde3 everything was back to normal

vmware player2.03 still doesn't like the new kernel and any-any-116 doesn't either.

Oh, well patience

[dibl]

Re: [solved]Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

Hmmmmmm.

Well, it was good catch on the permissions problem -- I had not thought of that one, it's never happened to me.

My experience with the any-any-update patch is that you only know you need it when vmware-config.pl starts to run correctly, and then ends up with errors. In other words, the patch won't fix a basic problem where it refuses to run at all.

I do know that I last installed the Player in KDE3, before I installed KDE4 on this Hardy Heron system. But KDE4 found the installation and put the icon in the "System" folder, so I am able to run it just fine in KDE4. Matter of fact, there was a kernel upgrade 2 days ago and afterward I had to run the vmware-config.pl routine, and I did that from the KDE4 Konsole with no issues.

So, I dunno -- I'm half tempted to try a new installation with 2.03 just to see if I can get it to work on KDE4. Maybe later today ......

[dibl]

Re: [solved]Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

OK, I did download the 2.03 Player, and installed it. Probably the ease with which it installed is influenced a lot by the existing 2.01 installation -- it really acts more like an upgrade than a new installation.

1. Downloaded the 64-bit tarball to my desktop.
2. Open the Konsole and "tar -xvf VMware-player-2.0.3-80004.x86_64.tar.gz" (it extracts into a new folder)
3. cd to the new folder
4. sudo sh ./vmware-install.pl and the whole deal "just worked"

Note that I did not need to change the permissions. Odd why that would a problem on yours.

Like I said, I think the fact that I had a configured installation of ver. 2.01 already sitting here made a big difference. I did have to accept the license (again), but it didn't change the icon or anything -- my Win XP machine opens the same as it did yesterday, and only by clicking "about" in the "Player" menu of VM Player can I detect that it is the newer version.

So, that's my story.

[Fintan]

Re: [solved]Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

@fred:
What do you mean any-any doesn't like the kernel?
Which version do you have?
If you have version 116 it should work fine.
to run the ./runme.pl you need build-essentlal.

[jonah1980]

Re: [solved]Installing vmware player 2.03 on Hardy?

this still doesn't work for me, chmod the installer and it installs but then i get that permission error for the config thing at end... can anyone please fix hardy...