VMWare install - vmmon.ko will not build on FC5

[Irvine Short]

On Wed, 2006-07-19 at 09:31 +0200, Irvine Short wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-07-18 at 15:02 +0200, Alexander Apprich wrote:
> 
> > did you apply the vmware-any-any patch for vmware? If not, do so and
> > it probably will work ;-)

> Hmm, I was trying the very latest server,
> VMware-server-1.0.0-28343.i386.rpm
> 
> Some of the other folks are saying they don't need the patch. I
> downloaded the patch but there's no documentation with it, I'll give it
> a try.

I ran it:

[root at arthur vmware-any-any-update101]# ./runme.pl
Updating /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl ... unknown version
The file /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/vmmon.tar that this script was
about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

At which point I stopped.

--Irvine
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