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Old 09-03-2008, 04:13 PM   #1
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Upgrade to Hardy 8.04 and lost vmware: Now cannot install vmware


So when I upgraded most likely I made the dumb mistake of removing vmware. I upgraded Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04. All the files are still there. I issued the vmware-uninstall.pl script just to wipe everything clean and start over. It said it was successful but I am not so sure it is. I had may have previously installed it with the tar file, can't remember. Now I would like to do it with apt but here is my error read out:


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root@jmckenna-laptop:/home/jmckenna# apt-get install vmware-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package vmware-server is not available, but is referred to by another package.
This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or
is only available from another source
E: Package vmware-server has no installation candidate
root@jmckenna-laptop:/home/jmckenna#
I have this line in my source list file:

deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu hardy partner

According to the error it's my source but it seems to me to be a dependency issue. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance...
 
Old 09-06-2008, 06:40 AM   #2
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It's proprietary software - so FOSS developers cannot help speed updates.
There is no 8.04 package for vmware-server yet.

refs:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VMware/Server
Find the beta on http://www.vmware.com/beta/server/download.html
 
  


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