Installing from the tarball
VMware-workstation-6.0.2-59824.x86_64.tar.gz
Steps required to get VMware Workstation 6.0.2 installed on Ubuntu 7.10 system on i686.
Install the required compiler and kernel headers needed to compile the vmware kernel module.
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential gcc-3.4
If you are using AMD x86_64 then you need to install ia32-libs as well.
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
Download VMWare Workstation 6.0.2 from VMware and upack:
tar xzf VMware-workstation-6.0.2-59824.x86_64.tar.gz
Run the VMware install script.
export CC=/usr/bin/gcc-3.4 && cd vmware-distrib && sudo ./vmware-install.pl
It is safe to take all the defaults.
Installing from the .rpm
VMware-workstation-6.0.2-59824.i386.rpm
It’s relatively easy to convert VMWare’s .rpm to a .deb and install VMWare inside the package manager. Here’s how:
Make sure you have the kernel headers and compiler first, with:
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r) build-essential gcc-3.4
Download VMWare Workstation 6.0 from their site in .rpm format, and get a serial number from them while you’re at it.
Convert the .rpm to a .deb with
fakeroot alien VMware-workstation-6.0.*.rpm
Install the .deb with
sudo dpkg -i /home/matt/local/src/vmware/vmwareworkstation_6.0.*.deb
Edit /etc/vmware/locations as root and add the following three lines:
Just after
answer BINDIR /usr/bin
add
answer SBINDIR /usr/sbin
Just after
remove_answer BINDIRanswer BINDIR /usr/bin
add
remove_answer SBINDIRanswer SBINDIR /usr/sbin
Run vmware-config.pl (and answer the questions accordingly; this hasn’t really changed since VMWare 4.5) with
sudo /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl
Unzip the EULA, which VMWare expects to be uncompressed but which is installed compressed:
sudo gunzip /usr/share/doc/vmware/EULA.gz
Start vmware, accept the EULA, and enter the serial number.
