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vael

Member

Registered: 2006-01-08

Posts: 11

vmware install trouble

I am trying to install vmware.
I have downloaded the .tar.gz from here:

http://download3.vmware.com/software/vm … 867.tar.gz

and here:

http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?d … s=0&SeB=nd

Its the same package I seem.
The problem is simple. I uncompress it:   tar -xzvf VMware-server-1.0.2-39867.tar.gz
Then I get a directory: vmware-server-distrib

I move inside it and if I run:    sh vmware-install.pl
I get:
...
vmware-install.pl: line 35: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 36: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 37: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 38: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 39: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 40: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 41: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 43: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 44: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 45: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 46: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 47: my: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 50: sub: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 51: undef: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 52: undef: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 53: undef: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 54: undef: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 55: undef: command not found
vmware-install.pl: line 57: syntax error near unexpected token `INSTALLDB,'
vmware-install.pl: line 57: `  open(INSTALLDB, '<' . $gInstallerMainDB)'

Or, if I try to install ir using AUR I type:       makepkg
I get: ==> ERROR: ./PKGBUILD does not exist.

Whats the way out of this? I try to install vmware.

Thanx for help:o

CavalierBob

Member

From: San Francisco Bay Area

Registered: 2006-07-20

Posts: 110

Re: vmware install trouble

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/New … se_the_AUR

vael

Member

Registered: 2006-01-08

Posts: 11

Re: vmware install trouble

From my past post:

Or, if I try to install ir using AUR I type:       makepkg
I get: ==> ERROR: ./PKGBUILD does not exist.

Whats the way out of this? I try to install vmware.

Thanx.

kbutcher5

Member

Registered: 2007-04-22

Posts: 9

Re: vmware install trouble

Make sure you have the file called PKGBUILD in the dir?

stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: vmware install trouble

You clearly haven't read his link.

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vael

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Registered: 2006-01-08

Posts: 11

Re: vmware install trouble

Gracias, ya quedó

dr_te_z

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From: Zoetermeer, the Netherlands

Registered: 2006-12-06

Posts: 154

Re: vmware install trouble

Downloaded and installed vmware client yesterday. First I ran the "prepare scripts" from wiki. After that the vmware install script.
Got the same error as topicstarter but "solved" it by accident by starting the script from "mc" instead of native bash.

Don't know why but I am glad it worked. The vmware-supplied scritpt works perfectly and the "horror stories" from the wiki are not valid anymore.
[my personal opinion]
installing an old version of gcc for the sake of to installing  a specific application is horror to me
[/my personal opinion]

Now I can transport my virtual machine images from the windows-partition to arch.

Last edited by dr_te_z (2007-05-10 12:19:44)

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