how to install vmware workstation

Michael michaelg at seadreamer.net
Wed Apr 30 16:50:17 UTC 2008


John Baker wrote:
> Look folks I need direction,hopefully I will have a clue as to what you 
> folks are talking about! I am a NEWBIE to Linux but not to computing. where 
> do I go to learn how to 1st enter the waters so that I may wade,then learn 
> to swim and henseforth learn or be eaten by sharks.I am not asking for your 
> taking me by the hand,just where do I go to start my learnings? I give my 
> word any and all help will be passed along to any that I may help. I don't 
> think I have said it yet but working with win-doze3082 I am sick of the 
> world that Microsloth has raised me in.
> Once again if you can help,help.if you cannot ,don't either I have my hat in 
> my hand and I I wish to gain is knowledge
> Thanks in advance
> John Baker
> Irish by God
> U.S.Marine by choice
> OOH-RAH
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Clayton" <smaug42 at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" 
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> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 10:10 AM
> Subject: Re: how to install vmware workstation
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>>>  I am not totally sure, but afair Gentoo's emerge downloaded the vmware
>>>  tgz file (or I had to fetch it manually and place it in the DISTFILE
>>>  dir), extracted it, applied some patches and the only thing I had to
>>>  run after every vmware update was vmware-config.pl to get it working.
>>>       
>> That should be all you need to do with any updates to the kernel after
>> the initial install.
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>> C.
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-John, why don't you visit the Ubuntu forums.  http://ubuntuforums.org/  
you will find a wealth of information at all levels.

Mike
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