problem with vmware

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#1

hello
i just installed vmware player download from VMware: Virtualization via Hypervisor, Virtual Machine & Server Consolidation - VMware
i download the rpm package
and when i installed vmware player i see vmware marked in the yast2 list

but in the kde menu i cannot find any match about vmware
in the console i can also not find anything about vmware
looks like it did not install anything at all

make is installed
kernel-source is installed
gcc is installed
gcc-c++ is installed

can somebody help me ?
thanks

#2

Hi
It should be called vmplayer and lives in /usr/bin

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#3

Download the “bundle” version instead of the rpm and simply run the downloaded bundle file as root: “sh whateverfilename.bundle”
That will start a GUI installer.

#4

Thanks !
that works :slight_smile:

#5

Just to add that you can easily install the rpm like I just did to upgrade from 2.5 to 2.5.1.

 matt@Linux11:~> su
Password:
Linux11:/home/matt # cd /home/matt/downloads
Linux11:/home/matt/downloads # rpm -Uhv VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.x86_64.rpm
Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
   1:VMware-Player          ########################################### [100%]
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
Installing VMware Installer 1.0
Copying files...
Configuring...
Installing VMware Player 2.5.1
Copying files...
Configuring...
Installing VMware Player 2.5.1
Copying files...
Configuring...
Installation was successful

You can uninstall it from YaST when you wish to upgrade.
Make sure you remove the rpm if you installed from YaST however because it will not work.

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