Hello everybody,

I am trying to set up vmware server 2 to a debian system and I am getting the following error while running vmware-install.pl :

vmware-install.pl: 8: use: not found
vmware-install.pl: 17: use: not found
vmware-install.pl: 18: no: not found
vmware-install.pl: 21: my: not found
vmware-install.pl: 23: my: not found
vmware-install.pl: 25: Syntax error: "(" unexpected


Any ideas what might be wrong ?
Also the system has already vmplayer installed .

Thank you

Did you open vmware-install.pl on windows at all ? .. might be the old <CR><LF> issue

Not sure what you mean but apparently these errors are kind of bogus ...
Meaning that yesterday I tried again to run vmware-install.pl and it gave me different error about modules already existing or something .So I uninstalled vmware-player and run it again .

It seems it got installed but it now gives other errors similar to the situation described here :
http://blog.tuinslak.org/2010/03/vmw...kernel-2-6-33/

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

new Error (while running vmware-config.pl:

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is a kernel header file directory, but it
does not contain the file "linux/autoconf.h" as expected. This can happen if
the kernel has never been built, or if you have invoked the "make mrproper"
command in your kernel directory. In any case, you may want to rebuild your
kernel.




It looks like a kernel thing. I have a custom build kernel as:

# uname -r
2.6.33.1

# ls /usr/src
linux
linux-2.6.33.1
linux-headers-2.6.33.1

And I say that the first errors are kinda bogus because is you run again vmware-install.pl it now gives them again .It has to be because it conflicts with things already installed (?) probably.

Thank you

Bit tricky with you having a custom kernel, the VMware setup is trying to compile it's modules - usually you would install kernel-devel and all would be ok.

Try finding 'autoconf.h', maybe it will be under /usr/src/linux-2.6.33.1/include ...

here's were it is
/usr/src$ find ./ -name "autoconf.h" -print

./linux-headers-2.6.33.1/include/generated/autoconf.h
./linux-2.6.33.1/debian/linux-headers-2.6.33.1/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.33.1/include/generated/autoconf.h
./linux-2.6.33.1/include/generated/autoconf.h

but what to do next ?

Thank you !

I'm not sure... none of those directories look correct. The path to mine is as follows:

/usr/src/kernels/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686/include/linux/autoconf.h

so the path I tell VMware is:

/usr/src/kernels/2.6.31.5-127.fc12.i686/include

Somehow you need to regenerate/rebuild you kernel headers so they appear in a similar structure, sorry.. I won't be any help as I haven't built a custom kernel in over 10 years

Well this part got fixed rather simply .I found somewhere (can recall the page exactly ) that you can simply softlink the location of the autoconf.h file because vmware installer looks it elsewhere.

Inside /usr/src/linux-2.6.33.1/include/linux I did

# ln -s ../generated/autoconf.h .

and I got passed the previous error ...

Anyway I managed to get it installed !

I looked more closely again to the blog mentioned earlier and used the script described there and found here:

http://radu.cotescu.com/2010/01/19/h...dora-opensuse/

Great job from Radu Cotescu and many thanks !


Anyway it is the smae story each time with vmware products ...Personally I have turned to VirtualBox since a couple of years already for many reasons ...one of which I could not accept going all over again the same path each time to get vmware products installed (looking for files in the wrong path , vmware-any-any to get it installed and a lot more ) .I had to look again into vmware because unfortunately a custom Redhat machine (old kernel) from a Vendor solution could not "see" the memory assigned to it in VirtualBox ...


Thank you for your time and help @kbp

Cheers !

And a newbie question How do I changed the title of the trhead to Solved ?


....ah never mind I found it ....the advanced option in edit ....lol