Michael JasonSmith wrote:
Anyway, tried the tarball installation method as alternative. It
seemed to mostly work, except for some things it wanted a c compiler,
and make (and other similar stuff?).
Tarballs are *generally* used to ship source-code for the software, not
running software. As you have discovered, compilers are needed: Ubuntu
has the gcc, make, and binutils packages, which you need to compile most
software.
That would be very nice because it would mean that VMWare was FOSS.
Unfortunately it is a binary. What needs to be compiled is The kernel
module for which you also need kernel-headers. Just do "sudo apt-get
install linux-headers-2.6.15-26". That works on my machine. You will
need to get new headers and recompile the module each time you install a
new kernel.
Hope that helps,
Robert J. C. Himmelmann
