vmware server installation - missing libraries

[woja]

Hi, I have a Gutsy AMD64 machine, trying to install VMware-server-1.0.4-56528.

I get the following error while running vmware-config.pl:

The correct version of one or more libraries needed to run VMware Server may be
missing. This is the output of ldd /usr/bin/vmware:
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7ed6000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7ed2000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7eb9000)
libX11.so.6 => not found
libXtst.so.6 => not found
libXext.so.6 => not found
libXt.so.6 => not found
libICE.so.6 => not found
libSM.so.6 => not found
libXrender.so.1 => not found
libz.so.1 => not found
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7d6e000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f0e000)


And the fresh license key not being accepted is the other symptom. Trying to start vmware gives the same missing library indication as above:

root@gemini:/tmp/vmware-server-distrib# /usr/bin/vmware
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: libX11.so.6: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

I have build-essential, xinetd, libX11-6 installed. Can anyone offer any suggestions?

Cheers,
Roger

[woja]

I'll answer my own question as this has now been solved. I needed to install (Adept or apt-get install) the ia32-libs package. While the libraries reported by the installation as missing are actually on the system, they are the 64bit versions and the installer is looking for 32bit ones.

[greengaroo]

So how did you get your 64-bit librairies to work?

Thanks!
greengaroo


"Operator! Give me the number for 911!"
-- Omer

[woja]

at the command line:

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs

or via Adept, search for and install the ia32-libs package.