Hello. First of all I know VMware isn't supported with slackware officially.
But I do have a problem:

I found a manual (in these forums) and downloaded the latest version from the official site. That is version 3.2. Now I unpacked the file as in the manual and want to coninue. Unfortuantly they say to run the command ./vmware-install.pl but I don't have that file. Even if I download an older version it isn't there. So I run ./install.pl which is there. That says to read the install file for more info so I do and ho and behold it refers to the first command. So how do I install VMwaree?? I'm really troubled now.

Can any one help?

I'm running Slackware current (no troubles what so ever) with fluxbox. Hope someone can help or say where to find a vmware file which I should use if I'm not useing the correct one. I use the "VMware-workstation-3.2.0-2230.tar.gz

I have VMware installed on my slackware box. I installed 3.2 without a hitch. The vmware-install.pl file was in my tarball. It is just a symbolic link to bin/vmware-uninstall.pl, just run that(although it isn't exactly intuitive).

give please the serial n. for vmware 3.2.0.2230 for suse please

Thanks 'Gunter'

I'll run that script then. Did you use that manual which was posted here which says first to make init.d an so on? Or did you just use the vmware manual?

Oh and where did you get your tarball from?

A small question. Does anyone have the tarball that contains the file as mentioned above?? I mean the vmware-insall.pl?? Maybe my tarball is corrupt, this is mentioned at places on the net. It doesn't need to be the latest version. If some does have it maybe they can mail it, I know its big, or paste a link to it?

If you mail it please note that here so I don't get more of them :-)

Oh the funny thing is this happens to all the versions I download from vmware site. Am I unpacking it incorrectly sothat files are deleted?

how about Slackware as a vmware client? ie vmware with windows as host and then running a slackware system already installed?

i still don'w want to try and install vmware 3.2 on my win2k system thinking that it might just crash (vmware) when I try to run slack.

No thanks, not for me. I'm trying to run linux instead of windows. Upto now everything is installing fine.

I just need vmware to do stuff for work, I need a .net server, 2kadv server an a few workstations. So if i do that with win I think I'll crash it haha.

Back to the topic. Can I install the rpm version on my slackware/fluxbox system then?

By the way, I'm running slackware current, with fluxbox. I only get some errors running the tar command with unable to set permissions .. (I'm at work now so can't remember all. I'm doing everything as root.

Um, yes you can install RPM's on Slack. HOWEVER, I've been using rpm2tgz to do this, and it's been working great for my needs. My needs as far as RPM's go is very small, nothing compared to the monster that VMWare is, so YMMV.

Cool

I installed vmware succesfully for slackware 8.1 (and some previous version). It works fine, but to my experience it
most likely will cause you problem in a multi-user envoirment,
since you ought avoid supending vmware and rebooting the
suspended vmware OS.

Installation procedures:
http://www.cs.uit.no/~ivarn/howto.html#vmware