installing vmware-tools in Ubuntu-6.06?

[Mike Leone]

Edmund Laugasson wrote:
>> I have Ubuntu 6.06 LTS installed as a VMware guest on my VMware server. And
>> I'm trying to install the VMware tools. They give you an RPM or a gzipped
>> source. So I unzipped the source, and ran the perl script. It said it
>> couldn't recognize my kernel or distribution (even though I saw it unpack
>> files with ubuntu in the name; I presume my kernel is a slightly later
>> version of what they expect). The script offers to manually build the
>> modules (kernel modules, from the look of it). So I download the kernel
>> sources for it to find. Then it complains that it can't find the version.h
>> file in the kernel source, which usually means that I haven't built the
>> kernel myself.
>>
>> Correct; I haven't. And I don't want to, if I don't have to.
>>
>> So my question - has anyone gotten the vmware-tools to install in Ubuntu
>> 6.06 LTS? If so, what did you have to do? 
> 
> I installed:
> 
> 1) sudo apt-get install make
> (UNIX make command to compile)
> 
> 2) sudo apt-get install gcc
> GNU C Compiler to compile kernel modules
> 
> 3) sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
> 
> 4) a - commercial, b - freeware (current stable versions)
> a) tar -zxvf VMware-workstation-5.5.3-34685.tar.gz
> b) tar -zxvf VMware-server-1.0.0-28343.tar.gz

Why did you install all of vmware into Ubuntu, instead of just the 
vmware-tools?

> 
> 5) sudo ./vmware_install.pl

I don't want to install all of vmware (the vmware host is Windows 2000); 
just the vmware-tools into the ubuntu guest.

> 
> 6) agreed all default settings and after some installation voila! - it 
> worked!
> 
> 7) I also used this command for configuring dynamic linker run-time 
> bindings:
> sudo ldconfig
> 
> ... or do restart but this is not necessary.
> 
> 
> I used VM Ware 5.5.3 commercial licence, I bought to my organization.
> OS: Kubuntu 6.06 LTS with KDE 3.5.5 from kubuntu.org and 
> universe/multiverse repositories enabled and frequently updated (using 
> crontab).

Thanks