I'm trying to install the free VMWare server on Etch 4.01 on an Asus MB with AMD64 3800 dual core cpu. I've verified that I have the current VMWare builds and have successfully installed with these same files on this same machine under CentOS 5.0 with no problems. Also, my system is up-to-date.

I'm using an article that was on the Howtoforge as my guide (How To Install VMware Server On Debian 4.0 (Etch), http://www.howtoforge.com/debian_etc...e_server_howto).

After installing the various libs, etc. at the start, it does not ask me any questions about screen resolution as the author says but it didn't ask me any under CentOS so that may not be important.

However, later in the installation, it gives me the following list of missing files:

"The correct version of one or more libraries needed to run VMware Server may be
missing. This is the output of ldd /usr/bin/vmware:
linux-gate.so.1 => (0xffffe000)
libm.so.6 => /lib32/libm.so.6 (0xf7f45000)
libdl.so.2 => /lib32/libdl.so.2 (0xf7f41000)
libpthread.so.0 => /lib32/libpthread.so.0 (0xf7f30000)
libX11.so.6 => not found
libXtst.so.6 => not found
libXext.so.6 => not found
libXt.so.6 => not found
libICE.so.6 => not found
libSM.so.6 => not found
libXrender.so.1 => not found
libz.so.1 => not found
libc.so.6 => /lib32/libc.so.6 (0xf7e03000)
/lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0xf7f7a000)

I've looked under Synaptic and don't see anything with an .so suffix.

I'm lost. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.

Shared object library..
Usually found in a lib directory..

for instance.

it-etch:~# find / -name libX11.so.6
/usr/lib/libX11.so.6


A couple quick searches of the Debian package site will tell you what packages provide those library files..

Search for libX11.so.6

Click the link of the result and it's Package: libx11-6 (2:1.0.3-7)

Lather rinse repeat till you find all the shared libraries..

Do you not have X installed on the server ?

Thanks for the feedback.

I assumed that X was installed automatically. I don't know enough about Linux to "not" install it!

I'll check X stuff might, or might not, be installed.

Thanks again for the help.

i have had no problem running lenny and VMWare under Etch Lenny and SID

Wierd those libraries are installed on my system but I haven't found which X11 package has them as dependencies..

you could just try aptitude install libxt6 zlib1g libxtst6 libxrender1

Try installing xorg-dev and/or xserver-xorg-dev. Meta packages containing all (?) the X development libraries. Kind of a shotgun approach, but they've covered all the X build dependencies I've ever had.

The solution for me was to install ia32-libs.