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VMPlayer on Debian

I wanted to try the VMPlayer on Debian Linux. I downloaded the .RPM from their site and then ran "Alien" to convert the RPM into a .deb file as you can see below.
I assumed everything installed fine but now I can't figure out how to launch the player or set it up - I have never used VMWare so I wanted to play.

Can anyone please help me?

Code:

cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# alien VMware-player-1.0.3-34682.i386.rpm

Warning: Skipping conversion of scripts in package VMwarePlayer: postinst postrm preinst prerm

Warning: Use the --scripts parameter to include the scripts.

vmwareplayer_1.0.3-34683_i386.deb generated

cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# ls

Firefox.desktop                    VMware-player-1.0.3-34682.tar.gz  vpnpasswords.txt~

VMware-player-1.0.3-34682.i386.rpm  vmwareplayer_1.0.3-34683_i386.deb

cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# dpkg -i vmwareplayer_1.0.3-34683_i386.deb

Selecting previously deselected package vmwareplayer.

(Reading database ... 83124 files and directories currently installed.)

Unpacking vmwareplayer (from vmwareplayer_1.0.3-34683_i386.deb) ...

Setting up vmwareplayer (1.0.3-34683) ...



cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# vm

vmnet-bridge      vmnet-natd        vmnet-sniffer    vmstat            vmware-config.pl

vmnet-dhcpd      vmnet-netifup    vmplayer          vm-support        vmware-ping

cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# vmplayer

/usr/bin/vmplayer: line 85: /etc/vmware/locations: No such file or directory

/usr/bin/vmplayer: line 177: /lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: No such file or directory

/usr/bin/vmplayer: line 177: exec: /lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: cannot execute: No such file or directory

cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# sh vmplayer

/usr/bin/vmplayer: line 85: /etc/vmware/locations: No such file or directory

/usr/bin/vmplayer: line 177: /lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: No such file or directory

/usr/bin/vmplayer: line 177: exec: /lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh: cannot execute: No such file or directory

cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# locate vmplayer

I ran this long time ago, but I think you need to configure the vmplayer first.
./vmware-config.pl

Do you know where that config file is located?

Code:

cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# ./vmware-config.pl

bash: ./vmware-config.pl: No such file or directory

I think it is in /opt/Vmware/something-or-other

you showed it to me.

Quote:

cwilliams:/home/cwilliams/Desktop# vm
vmnet-bridge vmnet-natd vmnet-sniffer vmstat vmware-config.pl
vmnet-dhcpd vmnet-netifup vmplayer vm-support vmware-ping

I got that part working but now it hangs on a missing dependencies I am unable to find or bypass...

Code:

You can now run VMware Player by invoking the following command:

"/usr/bin/vmplayer".



Enjoy,



--the VMware team



cwilliams:/home/carlos/Desktop/vmware-player-distrib# /usr/bin/vmplayer

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmplayer: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)



(vmplayer:7464): libgnomevfs-WARNING **: Cannot load module `/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libfile.so' (/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6))

I think there is a problem with your gcc version. is it >=4.20

How do I check the version I have on my machine?

gcc -v or rpm -q gcc

So I guess this version I have is not sufficient for VMWare, huh?

Code:

gcc version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)