VMware and Fedora Core 5

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Ed Greshko wrote:

> Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:
>> Has anyone had difficulty in installing VMware 5.5.1 in Fedora Core 5?
>> I cannot find the configuration file in /usr/bin directory in order to
>> finish the installation.  Does anyone know what to do here?  I am
>> installing VMware on a IBM ThinkPad T-30.

Are you installing via tarball or RPM?  The RPM works well.

>
> In looking through the archives (You did look in the archives?) I didn't
> read about anyone not being able to find vmware-config.pl or other
> vmware binaries.  Is that your issue?
>
> Others have had problems running vmware-config.pl...but that question
> has been asked/answered quite a few times.  But, you will probably need
> to know that eventually.  So, I'll just cut/paste the last response to
> that query....
>
> After getting errors when running vmware-config.pl
>
> "Seems other users have reported this issue and have resolved it.
> Looking back on the archives...the key seems to have been
> vmware-any-any-update99.

We are up to update100 now.

Also (to preempt the next question), if you run SElinux, you may also need 
to (as root):

     chcon -t textrel_shlib_t \
         /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0

>
> A google of that will bring you to info on where to get it, and how to
> install."
>
>
>

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 		Matthew Saltzman

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