réjean Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 (edited) Hi all! I have downloaded the vmware player and would like to install it but I don't know how to approach a bundle type file. Here is what I got so far; [rejean@localhost ~]$ tar -xvzf VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle gzip: stdin: not in gzip format tar: Child returned status 1 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [rejean@localhost ~]$ tar -xvzf VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle.tar.gz tar (child): VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle.tar.gz: Cannot open: No such file or directory tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now tar: Child returned status 2 tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now [rejean@localhost ~]$ Edited March 1, 2012 by réjean Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 .bundle files are for Apple/Mac. Sorry, no workie in MS Windows or Linux. Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Dunno. Why aren't you installing VMWare Player from your distribution's repos... the safe way? Just curious... Quote
réjean Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 I don't see it in Synaptic. I tried installing win8 in Vbox but it doesn't work and someone suggested vmware. No big deal, if it doesn't work I'll just skip win8. I was just curious and it is not that I will eventually buy it. Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 OK, according to some items I've read while searching, you have to make the .bundle file executable and then execute it to bring up the VMWare graphic installer. #chmod +x <filename>.bundle sh <filename>.bundle Try that. Quote
securitybreach Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Try this: chmod +x VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle ./VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Vmware Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 NOTE: Installing an app like this in Linux will NOT satisfy dependencies (software that is needed by the app). You may find yourself in dependency H3LL trying to manually track down and install dependencies to make this work. I didn't see anything in the documentation or release notes about dependencies, so... I dunno. That ARCH Wiki is just awesome! Quote
securitybreach Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Well I do not think that VmWare is available in any distro's repositories per the license ╔═ comhack@Cerberus 01:27 PM ╚═══ ~-> yaourt -Ss vmware-server aur/vmware-server 2.0.2-2 (223) Powerful server virtualization software aur/vmware-server-modules 2.0.2-4 (170) Kernel modules for VMware Server aur/vmware-server-console 1.0.10-1 (114) Remote console for VMware Server aur/bin32-vmware-server-console 1.0.10-4 (11) Remote console for VMware Server Quote
réjean Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 We are getting somewhere; [root@localhost Downloads]#chmod +x VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle [root@localhost Downloads]#sh VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle This is a x64 bundle and does not match that of the current architecture. Please download the x86 bundle. [root@localhost Downloads]#./[root@localhost Downloads]#chmod +x VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle bash: ./[root@localhost: No such file or directory [root@localhost Downloads]#[root@localhost Downloads]#sh VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle bash: [root@localhost: command not found [root@localhost Downloads]#This is a x64 bundle and does not match that of the current bash: This: command not found [root@localhost Downloads]#./VMware-Player-4.0.2-591240.x86_64.bundle This is a x64 bundle and does not match that of the current architecture. Please download the x86 bundle. [root@localhost Downloads]# so I'll download the .32 bit version and give it a try. I dunno where you guys find all this info because I have spent hours this morning on the VMWARE website trying to find some answers. Quote
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 I dunno where you guys find all this info because I have spent hours this morning on the VMWARE website trying to find some answers. SEARCH ENGINES... anyone of them. Yippee! The -32 bit is installing now. YIPPEE! Quote
réjean Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 Yeah! The only thing is that I've got to figure out how to open it now. [rejean@localhost ~]$ whereis vmware vmware: /etc/vmware /usr/lib/vmware /usr/share/man/man4/vmware.4.bz2 at least I know where to look. Quote
securitybreach Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Try vmrun or vm to get a list of commands. Quote
réjean Posted March 1, 2012 Author Posted March 1, 2012 Thanks josh but I found it before reading your reply. It was in /usr/bin/. Quote
securitybreach Posted March 1, 2012 Posted March 1, 2012 Thanks josh but I found it before reading your reply. It was in /usr/bin/. Kewl Quote
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