Problem with installing VMware

[Paul Smith]

On 10/5/05, Stuart Sears <stuart at sjsears.com> wrote:
> >>>>>I am trying to install VMware 4.5.2, but when I ran (as root)
> >>>>>
> >>>>>[root at localhost vmware-distrib]# perl vmware-install.pl
> >>>>>
> >>>>>I get the following error
> >>>>>
> >>>>>«Before running VMware Workstation for the first time, you need to configure it
> >>>>>by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl". Do you want this
> >>>>>program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]
> >>>>>
> >>>>>sh: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl: Permission denied»
> >>>>
> >>>>I tried the following:
> >>>>
> >>>># chmod +x /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
> >>>>[root at localhost vmware-distrib]# perl vmware-install.pl
> >>>>A previous installation of VMware software has been detected.
> >>>>
> >>>>Failure
> >>>>
> >>>>Execution aborted.
> >>>>#
> >>>>
> >>>>Any advice?
> >>>
> >>>The general advice is to get the vmware-any-any-update##.tar.gz file as
> >>>suggested regularly on the VMWare support forums.
> >>>
> >>>It appears that your software has been installed, just not configured.
> >>>Apply the update and re-run vmware-config.pl.
> >>>
> >>>Since you are running 4.5.2 (instead of the current 5.0), make sure to
> >>>read the Fedora Release Notes pertaining to "udev" wiping out the /dev
> >>>entries that vmware-config.pl creates (though the latest update may have
> >>>fixed this - it is fixed in 5.0).
> >>
> >>Thanks, Rob and Andy. I am downloading the version 5.5 beta. This is
> >>probably a better solution than installing the version 4.5.2.
> >
> >
> > When trying to install the version 5.5 beta, I get the following error:
> >
> > # rpm -ihv VMware-workstation-5.5.0-16958.i386.rpm
> > Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
> >
> > error: %pre(VMwareWorkstation-5.5.0-16958.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
> > error:   install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping
> > VMwareWorkstation-5.5.0-16958
>
> rpm -qp --scripts VMware-workstation-5.5.0-16958.i386.rpm
> will tell you what it is trying to do - look for the preinstall script
>
> if you try running the command itself you may get a better idea what is
> going on.
> Incidentally this doesn't necessarily mean that the packages was *not*
> installed. I would check this if I were you.

Thanks, Stuart. I got this:

# rpm -qp --scripts VMware-workstation-5.5.0-16958.i386.rpm | grep preinstall
preinstall scriptlet (using /bin/sh):
#

Paul