[ubuntu-uk] installing vmware

[Rob Beard]

On 01/05/10 17:08, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 16:29 +0100, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
>> On 1 May 2010 15:10, Norman Silverstone<norman at littletank.org>  wrote:
>>>
>>> What is wrong, please?
>>>
>>
>> Try:
>>
>> $ sudo ./VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-246459.i386.bundle
>>
>> Note the ./ which tells bash where the file is (i.e. in the current directory)
>
> I tried this with the same result - 'Command not found'. I must be
> missing something which is very obvious but I just can't see it.
>
> Norman
>
>

Have you made the file executable?

chmod a+x ./VMWare-Workstation-6.5.3-246459.i386.bundle

It's also worth bearing in mind, if you're running Ubuntu 10.04 (or 9.10 
I believe) you may get an error when compiling modules, at least it 
happens with VMWare Server 1.x

I did see a patch available somewhere, another option is to make some 
changes to the kernel source and re-compile the kernel.

If I find the details I'll post them on the list (as I'm hoping to 
install VMWare Server 1.0.10 on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS next week).

Rob