VMware and Fedora Core 5

[Jeffrey D. Yuille]

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 22:07 -0400, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

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

     I am installing the rpm file.  As you mentioned above, I need to
install the patch to get working properly. 

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