I’m new to Linux and VMware so please bare with me
I’m tring to get the VMWare Management Interface working and came accross the following in the VMWare help:-
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Before Installing VMware Management Interface on a Linux Host
If you are running VMware Server on a 32-bit Linux host, you must install the libdb.so.3 library from your Linux distribution’s CD-ROM before you install the VMware Management Interface. The version that comes with a default Linux installation is incompatible with the VMware Management Interface and returns the following error when you start the VMware Management Interface:
Couldn’t find necessary components on your system. It appears that you are missing the following library: libdb.so.3.
Some Linux distributions are known to ship without these libraries. From your Linux distribution CD, install this RPM package: compat-db-<#>.<#>.<##>-<#>.i386.rpm or
libdb#.deb, where <#> is a version number particular to your version of the distribution.
If your distribution CD does not have this package, contact your vendor for a suitable library.
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As far as I can tell the libdb.so.3 file is not present on the OpenSuSE 11.0 installation I’ve done, and I cant find the compat-db rpm in the repo’s or on the CD.
Can anyone please point me in the right direction for this rpm?
Open YaST, go to Software Management and use Search to locate it.
If it does not appear, you may need to add additional repositories.
Or google it and you may well find the OpenSUSE package is available via 1-click install. If it is in a repository you have not added, you will get the chance to add the repository.
I’ve googled for compat-db and found rpmfind.net and rpm.pbone.net both of which show a compat-db rpm but not for OpenSuSE. Is there a distribution compatible with OpenSuSE 11.0 that is useable?
db3 is really old - what exactly are you trying to install?
You could grab the source files from another distribution or a package and compile them for yourself but installing the RPM directly is not adviceable and is highly unlikely to work.
This thing is old as sin - VMware uses web based virtual machine administration and remote console nowadays, this program is not relevant to the free VMware Server product.
The server link you gave is the one I’ve installed and currently have working. The TAR link is something new, and still cannot find on the VMWare downloads section, so a big thanks for that.
Hopefully this should now be fairly straight forward (famous last words :). I’ll give it a go and see how I get on.
