radiohead
February 26th, 2007, 07:12 PM
THIS IS TO COMPILE VMPLAYER FROM THE REPOS!!!!
I have been working on vmware for about a year, and when I formatted and upgraded to edgy, vmware-player wouldn't install, and apt-get source wouldn't compile either, but I found a way around it (at least to compile it anyway :-P). It's a bit hackish, but it works all the same.
First off, the package in the repos is broken and doesn't contain the vmmon and vmnet tarballs that you need, so you can get them with this.
wget http://76.186.170.17/radiohead/Desktop/vmmon.tar
wget http://76.186.170.17/radiohead/Desktop/vmnet.tar
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
sudo cp ./vm*.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
Then, we need to get the dependecies for it (which I graciously steal from http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_vmware_server)
sudo apt-get install libx11-6 libx11-dev libxtst6 xlibs-dev xinetd wget linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential gcc binutils-doc cpp-doc make manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc gcc-4.0-doc libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1
Then, cd to the directory where you source is contained and run the vmware-install.pl script as root and you are good to go.
This was done on 32-bit Edgy.
I have been working on vmware for about a year, and when I formatted and upgraded to edgy, vmware-player wouldn't install, and apt-get source wouldn't compile either, but I found a way around it (at least to compile it anyway :-P). It's a bit hackish, but it works all the same.
First off, the package in the repos is broken and doesn't contain the vmmon and vmnet tarballs that you need, so you can get them with this.
wget http://76.186.170.17/radiohead/Desktop/vmmon.tar
wget http://76.186.170.17/radiohead/Desktop/vmnet.tar
sudo mkdir /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
sudo cp ./vm*.tar /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source/
Then, we need to get the dependecies for it (which I graciously steal from http://www.howtoforge.com/ubuntu_vmware_server)
sudo apt-get install libx11-6 libx11-dev libxtst6 xlibs-dev xinetd wget linux-headers-`uname -r` build-essential gcc binutils-doc cpp-doc make manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc gcc-4.0-doc libc6-dev-amd64 lib64gcc1
Then, cd to the directory where you source is contained and run the vmware-install.pl script as root and you are good to go.
This was done on 32-bit Edgy.