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Re: [PLUG] VMware in Ubuntu repos?
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JP Vossen wrote:
> OK, so we are getting the same results then. :-/ It's not even that
> it's difficult to do, but a) I dislike going outside the packaging
> system and b) you have to recompile at every kernel update and the way
> the GUI handles that is terrible.
>
> Once you've install the correct packages (which does NOT, NOT, NOT
> including doing "linux-headers-`uname -r`" [1]), it's simple enough to
> run 'sudo vmware-config.pl'. The problem is that the GUI simply fails
> to start in such a case. So unless you either Just Know what's
> happening or you try it from the CLI, you have no clue why it suddenly
> won't work. IMO that's a serious bug that VMware should have fixed a
> long, long time ago, even via a trivial wrapper script. :-(
>
> FWIW, my idea of the correct i386 packages is:
> 'aptitude install xinetd build-essential linux-headers-generic'
>
> Then there are other issues such as missing symlinks and USB stuff that
> the script in http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=788169 handles.
> But it does commit the cardinal `uname -r` sin.
>
or just use virtualbox...
/me ducks
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