help with VMware and Ubuntu 6.06 amd64

Shubho Subhadeep.Sinha at Sun.COM
Tue Jul 11 11:16:27 UTC 2006


Hi all,

I am trying to get VMware server/workstation running on Dapper amd64. 
Everything goes fine till the time I need to start vmware..

This is what I get..
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deep at spsqal2:~$ vmware
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: 
libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: 
libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory
deep at spsqal2:~$
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As I can see, /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware is looking for the shared 
object in /usr/lib32, but its actually present in /usr/lib or 
/usr/lib64. Even if I create a soft link to the library in lib32, things 
dont seem to work. Can anyone please help?

deep at spsqal2:~$ ls -al /usr/lib32/libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 47 Jul 11 16:45 
/usr/lib32/libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1 -> 
/usr/lib/libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1
deep at spsqal2:~$ vmware
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: 
libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: error while loading shared libraries: 
libglibmm_generate_extra_defs-2.4.so.1: cannot open shared object file: 
No such file or directory
deep at spsqal2:~$

Also can I boot the 64 bit ubuntu kernel in 32 bit mode?

Regards,
-SS.




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