VERY OT VMware-player on F18

[Scott Robbins]

On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 09:18:38AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:14:57AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote:
> 
> 
> > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:53:24PM +0200, Andrei Amuraritei wrote:
> 
> > > >
> > > >The installation package is what they call a bundle, and is begun
> > > >by doing
> > > >a chmod 755 on it and then running ./VMware-player-whatever. (Or
> > > >one can
> > > >just run sh VMware-etc and so on).
> > > >
> > > >On F18, I run the command and there are no errors, but it just
> > > >takes me
> > > >back to a prompt.  


I figured out the problem.  On the minimal installation, tar is not
installed and the tar command is necessary for the installation to work.




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