vmware player sudo on edgy ?

[Dave S]

On Monday 01 January 2007 08:57, Dave S wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have downloaded and installed vmplayer via  ' vmware-config.pl' Its
> pretty amazing :)
>
> Only query is that I have to start vmware with
>
> sudo /usr/bin/vmplayer
>
> Googling around apparently vmplayer is supposed to be run as a normal user.
> I am all for that but I get
>
> dave at dave-comp:~/vmware-player-distrib$ /usr/bin/vmplayer
> bash: /usr/bin/vmplayer: Permission denied
> dave at dave-comp:~/vmware-player-distrib$
>
> I tried chmod +x ing it but then I get permission denied on more files. How
> do you guys start vmplayer on edgy ? Does anyone know a fix ?
>
> Dave

Dope :) did not realise that there is a package for it - doh !

Dave