Feisty Update Manager & VMware Trouble

Mike lake.wind77 at gmail.com
Sat Nov 10 05:19:10 UTC 2007


Mike wrote:
> For the past several days now update manager keeps telling me 
> there is an update for VMWare-Server available. I have applied 
> the update several times and have checked the log to be sure 
> the update completed successfully and it did. However, even 
> after finishing the update "Update Manager" still claims that 
> my system needs VMWare-Server updated (from version 1.0.3-1 to 
> 1.0.3-1). I've run VMWare Server after the update was applied 
> and it is at 1.0.3-1.
> 
> I don't know what is going on but it's getting quite 
> frustrating. How do I clear the VMWare-Server update from the 
> update manager? The update has already been installed several 
> times but update manager still thinks that the update has not 
> been applied.
> 
> Any help clearing this would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks
> 
Well apparently this is a known bug. With a little more 
research I found this:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/vmware-server/+bug/160683

Just in case anyone else here on the list is having the same 
problem.

Mike




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