HOWTO: Install VMware Server in Hardy (and later)

[altonbr]

Fresh 8.04 x86_64 Ubuntu install. All updates ran via Update manager. D/L'd VMware-server-1.0.5.80187.tgz, vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz, and created the isntall-vmware.sh script, in /home/jkein.

Open Terminal, type

jklein@jk-laptop:~$ sudo /bin/bash install-vmware.sh 
[sudo] password for jklein: 
 -- Updating Ubuntu, continuing...
 -- Upgrading Ubuntu, continuing...
 -- Installing necessary programs, continuing...

and that's all it did. For better than 30 minutes...

I tried launching again and same results...just sits at installing.

Rebooted, tried with and without 'sudo', it's just not completing. I hesitate to go comment out parts of your script for fear of uncertainty (I don't program, but see the logic/flow of events)

Suggestions?

All that line is doing is running

sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` xinetd

and then hiding the output. Try running that without running the script and see what happens. It sounds like your country's Ubuntu server may be down (ie: ca.archive.ubuntu.com).

[altonbr]

Updated.
Features:

• Created a prompt to install GUI libraries when X isn't present (thanks kezarjg!)
• Created separate library install list for 64-bit users
• Added -y flag to aptitude (thanks oraldlight!)

Should be pretty unbreakable now. Keep reporting any bugs

[Kosmi4]

thanks a lot.. your help is the reason i love Ubuntu..
worked great..

[MystaMax]

Hello, I used your script to install vmware server on ubuntu 8.04 64-bit, and when I type "vmware" @ the command line, I get back:

vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:

/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.


I've ran that script three times now. After each time, I try "vmware" and get the same error. Any ideas? I'm probably missing a dependency.

[altonbr]

Hello, I used your script to install vmware server on ubuntu 8.04 64-bit, and when I type "vmware" @ the command line, I get back:

vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:

/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.


I've ran that script three times now. After each time, I try "vmware" and get the same error. Any ideas? I'm probably missing a dependency.

What's the output at the end of my script?

Type 'no' the first time it asks you to run '/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl' (which is in the VMware install script) and then the second time it asks you to run '/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl' (which is in the VMware-any-any patch), type 'yes'. That should compile VMware Server properly.

[p388l3s]

vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for this system. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command:

/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.


I've ran that script three times now. After each time, I try "vmware" and get the same error. Any ideas? I'm probably missing a dependency.

I got the same error on 64bit ubuntu wheb running the script, the answer was to install xinetd and then run:

sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

the install ran smooth after installing xinetd, BUT I get this error now when running vmware from a shell:

#19 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x1b1) [0xf7c19076]
vmware: ../../src/xcb_lock.c:77: _XGetXCBBuffer: Assertion `((int) ((xcb_req) - (dpy->request)) >= 0)' failed.

Any help or insight would be appreciated.

[p388l3s]

OK,

So my other issue was resolved using this command in a shell:

sudo sed -i -e 's/usr\/l3232/usr\/l32/g' /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loader-files.d/libgtk2.0-0.loaders

as soon as I had run this command the errors went away.

I now have a complete working install of vmware server, so my suggestion to altonbr is on 64bit installs if you could make sure xinetd and the above mentioned code are run in your script and it should work all the time, and thanks for such great work in the first place. It's very much appreciated.

[altonbr]

@p388l3s

There's a thread showing the exact same problem but no help has come about: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4976397

What's your output of:

$ locate libgobject-2.0.so

Mine is:

/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0.1600.3
/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0/libgobject-2.0.so.0

[altonbr]

OK,

So my other issue was resolved using this command in a shell:

sudo sed -i -e 's/usr\/l3232/usr\/l32/g' /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loader-files.d/libgtk2.0-0.loaders

as soon as I had run this command the errors went away.

I now have a complete working install of vmware server, so my suggestion to altonbr is on 64bit installs if you could make sure xinetd and the above mentioned code are run in your script and it should work all the time, and thanks for such great work in the first place. It's very much appreciated.

Well the line

sudo sed -i -e 's/usr\/lib/usr\/l32/g' /usr/lib32/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loader-files.d/libgtk2.0-0.loaders

is already in the script. Why l3232?

That xinetd problem is completely my fault. It got lost in translation between my last script and my current so I've added it to my current script above.

I'll be issuing an update once I test your fix.

[MystaMax]

What's the output at the end of my script?

Type 'no' the first time it asks you to run '/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl' (which is in the VMware install script) and then the second time it asks you to run '/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl' (which is in the VMware-any-any patch), type 'yes'. That should compile VMware Server properly.

Unfortunately, I was pressed for time and install vmware server manually. i hope to test your script sometime next week, to see if I can recreate the problem.

Thanks.