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On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 22:07 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">On Tue, 4 Apr 2006, Ed Greshko wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Jeffrey D. Yuille wrote:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> Has anyone had difficulty in installing VMware 5.5.1 in Fedora Core 5?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> I cannot find the configuration file in /usr/bin directory in order to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> finish the installation. Does anyone know what to do here? I am</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">>> installing VMware on a IBM ThinkPad T-30.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Are you installing via tarball or RPM? The RPM works well.</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> In looking through the archives (You did look in the archives?) I didn't</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> read about anyone not being able to find vmware-config.pl or other</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> vmware binaries. Is that your issue?</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Others have had problems running vmware-config.pl...but that question</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> has been asked/answered quite a few times. But, you will probably need</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> to know that eventually. So, I'll just cut/paste the last response to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> that query....</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> After getting errors when running vmware-config.pl</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> "Seems other users have reported this issue and have resolved it.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> Looking back on the archives...the key seems to have been</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> vmware-any-any-update99.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">We are up to update100 now.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Also (to preempt the next question), if you run SElinux, you may also need </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">to (as root):</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> chcon -t textrel_shlib_t \</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">> A google of that will bring you to info on where to get it, and how to</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">> install."</FONT>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">-- </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"> Matthew Saltzman</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Clemson University Math Sciences</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">mjs AT clemson DOT edu</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000"><A HREF="http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs">http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs</A></FONT>
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I am installing the rpm file. As you mentioned above, I need to install the patch to get working properly. <BR>
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