Problems installing VMWare Server on CentOS 4.3 64bit

shawn_t · 11-16-2006, 09:36 PM

I am trying to install VMWare Server using CentOS 4.3 64-bit as the host operating system.

I get the following error when trying run the installation script for VMWare:

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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 => /lib/tls/libm.so.6 (0x00ac3000) 
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00abd000) 
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 (0x00b30000) 
        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 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0xf7fdc000) 
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/libc.so.6 (0x00990000) 
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x00977000)

The hardware is an HP a1610n AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core. My assumption is that perhaps being a 64 bit operating system may be the problem...

Any ideas? If anyone else has had any luck with any other 64-bit variants of Linux then I would be glad to hear about that as well.

trickykid · 11-17-2006, 01:59 PM

Looks like your missing a lot of libraries, particular X libraries. Are these even installed?

acid_kewpie · 11-17-2006, 02:04 PM

what are we suposed to tell you when you've told us yourself that those libraries aren't found??

shawn_t · 11-27-2006, 05:21 PM

The problem was, as expected, that the 32-bit libraries were not installed and VMWare was compiled as a 32-bit application.

To aid others that might encounter the same problem, here is the command to install the appropriate 32-bit libraries:

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yum install xorg-X11-libs.i386