VMware server

[Eberhard Roloff]

On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 13:37:00 +0200
Ouattara Oumar Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> wrote:

> Eberhard Roloff a écrit :
> > On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 11:39:06 +0200
> > Ouattara Oumar Aziz <wattazoum at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
>[...]
> > If there is none, you may do it kike this:
> > Download the latest rpm(s) from vmware.com and convert them
> > by alien.
> > runs here fabulously on K(ubuntu) Dapper.
> > 
> 
> Well, it could also be run with the tar.gz. Personally I don't
> really like using alien. Well, I installed VMware server on my
> Ubuntu and I agree, it just works great :)
> 

This is absolutely correct and it also shows that personal
preferences are _luckily_ different.
For my part, I prefer to have a clean deb install, which allows
me to do a clean deb removeal, shold I wish to do so.

Although Alien for sure is not the "tool for anything", it
sort of proofed it's value to me, when I firstly converted
OpenOffice rpms to deb and used them to replace the unstable
OOorg 1.9x on Breezy. Since then, I use it for
OpenOffice and VMware Player, Workstation, Server and Console and
again, I never had a single problem whatsoever. Nowadays, of
course, the OpenOffice 2.03 version is in the repositories and
hopefully vmware server will also be there soon. Then Alien will
loose it's importance for me.

best regards
Eberhard