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I am trying to install VMware-tools. The file is VMwareTools-6.0.0-45731.i386. I have tried to open it with a number of programs. Synaptic Package manager and Kpackage. Both give me an error saying "Unknown package" I am running the most recent version of Ubuntu and have updated it.
Um... isn't vmware server and player in the repos for Ubuntu 7.04?
yes it is. but i am talking about the vmware tools. i have XP and use vmware to create a virtual Linux machine and one of the things they ask to do is to install what are called vmware tools (ways to customize the guest OS)... vmware tools are not the server and player. two different things.
Are you sure there aren't vmwaretools in Ubuntu reposities? I mean, it sounds odd that there would be vmware server (etc.) but no vmware tools, if they're at all needed/necessary/important. Did you search from all the reposities, including non-free ones?
It's just that installing an rpm package, whatever the means, isn't wise thing to do if you can avoid that. Be it alien or just rpm installed on Ubuntu, it doesn't work as well as the native packages - Ubuntu .debs are meant for Ubuntu, they know where they're going to be installed, but .rpms are meant for other distributions and may cause trouble, for example install files into wrong locations on the system. I recommend spending an extra hour trying to find the .deb rather than take the seemingly easy route of alien'ing an rpm.
vmware-tools modules for Linux (kernel 2.6.20)
This package contains the set of loadable kernel modules for
VMWare guest operating systems. You only need this if you are
running this instance of the kernel as a VMWare guest.
This package contains the compiled kernel modules for 2.6.20. All
supported kernel types for this architecture are included in this single
package.
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