I have on my laptop Ibuntu. I would like to run VMPlayer on my laptop.
I have downloaded the VMplayer for linux. I have gone to the following website and found this:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/VM...ter%20versions
Quote:
Installing VMware Player on Ubuntu 9.04 or later versions
Install required packages build-essential and linux-headers
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r`
Download the latest VMware player e.g. VMware-Player-2.5.2-156735.i386.bundle (download the bundle version, not the rpm one) and run it as root using gksudo. You'll get a graphical installer that installs VMware player for you.
gksudo bash ./VMware-Player-2.5.2-156735.i386.bundle
If nothing appears, you may need to make the file executable. You can do so with this command: chmod +x ./VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.i386.bundle
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First time, It just went down a line. . .as if you hit enter. Nothing happened.
So I turned it into an executable. (like they said) and tried it again.
SAme thing happened.
I tried going to the download folder and double clicking on it, and it opens up a window, uncompress it, and then says it doesn't have access to the root directory. (If I run it in a terminal window).
My question is. . .How can I get this installed? I can't find access to the root system. In Debian, they had a link to the root, Ubuntu doesn't.
I am fairly new to Linux.
Thanks in advance.
Dwayne
