VMWare on Dapper ??

[Raymond Lillard]

Max Andersen wrote:
> Raymond Lillard wrote:
>>
>> I took your advice and downloaded the same build you reported
>> as working.
>>
>> root at fotd2: cat  ui-25516.log
>> Feb 15 17:36:33: vmui| Log for VMware Server pid=25516 version=e.x.p 
>>        build=build-20925 option=BETA
>> Feb 15 17:36:33: vmui| Gtk: /usr/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/engines/libmist.so: 
>>   undefined symbol: gdk_cairo_create
>> Feb 15 17:36:40: vmui| Caught signal 2 -- pid 25516 (eip 0xffffe410)
>>
>> What's up with this "undefined symbol: gdk_cairo_create" business?
> 
> I don't know, but I've got libcairo2 and libcairo2-dev installed. Might 
> be the issue.
> 
> The only issue I had was it said that I had no inetd, so vmware couldn't 
> start automatically. But it does start fine, just without me knowing how 
> ;-).
> 
>> My gtk2-engines-mist appears to be the latest version,
>> 2.7.4-0ubuntu1.  From Googling around, it looks like I
>> need gtk+-2.8.  How did you get around this?
> 
> I have the same gtk2 as you reported. But also libgtk2-common and -dev. 
> I actually don't know what causes this, but if you install cairo, you 
> might be on your way

It worked !!  Thanks you for the suggestion.

Regards,
Ray