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Dr Zin
January 19th, 2009, 07:27 PM
So I went to the VMware site and download a copy of VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.x86_64. So it come in RPM file ok so I go to the Ubuntu page where it talks about change the file to readable file so I could install.


drzin@deathcom:~$ sudo alien /home/drzin/Downloads/VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.x86_64.rpm
Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package VMware-Workstation: postinst prerm
Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.






^C


I tried it with Kpackage. This is the out put.


smart install -y /home/drzin/Downloads/VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.x86_64.rpm ;echo RESULT=$?
Loading cache...
error: Unable to create channel for file: /home/drzin/Downloads/VMware-Workstation-6.5.1-126130.x86_64.rpm

RESULT=1



I have Vbox installed. But i am limited I could used that for. I am going to Vbox to build images.