On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 08:14:57AM -0500, Scott Robbins wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2013 at 02:53:24PM +0200, Andrei Amuraritei wrote: > > > > > >The installation package is what they call a bundle, and is begun > > >by doing > > >a chmod 755 on it and then running ./VMware-player-whatever. (Or > > >one can > > >just run sh VMware-etc and so on). > > > > > >On F18, I run the command and there are no errors, but it just > > >takes me > > >back to a prompt. I tried doing it with the --console option, > > >tried doing > > >an su - to root, used the chmod 755 and running with ./VMware-etc > > >and sh > > >VMware-etc but all just take me back to a command prompt. > > > > > >Has anyone else tried to use it n F18. > > > Hi Scott, I am running VMware Player 5.0.1 build 894247 on the > > latest F18 (with updates) just fine. Can't remember if it was a slow > > download or not, but it does work OK on F18. Only problem I've had > > with it was after the bundle installation on first starting up > > VMware Player it asks for root privileges to build and install the > > kernel modules. That part didn't work ok (failing on the auth part). > > To bypass that I've started a konsole(using KDE) and, as root, ran: > > vmware-modconfig --icon="vmware" --appname="vmware" . This builds > > the kernel modules (need Development Tools), then reboot, then start > > VMware Player. > > A followup in case folks google for something like this. Firstly, my caveats about VMware's site seem to be gone, this time, it went right to 5.0.1 and downloaded in a few seconds. So no problems downloading. Secondly, did a test installation, this time choosing Gnome Desktop install, as opposed to what I tried last time, minimal install, then adding Gnome. When using Gnome, and presumably, some of the other default desktops, VMware-player installs as expected. So, I'm guessing that the VMware packagers are expecting some things to be there that don't get installed with a minimal install, adding X afterwards. Thanks again. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 The Master: You were destined to die, it was written. Buffy: What can I say? I flunked the written. -- test mailing list test@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/test
