Install VMware Server 1.0.6 on Ubuntu 8.04 “Hardy”

Downloading the Requirements

The first step, of course, is to download VMware Server 1.0.6. You’ll want to download the .tar.gz version. This command can be used for a direct download:

wget -c http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmserver/VMware-server-1.0.6-91891.tar.gz

The second step is to install some development tools that we’ll need to
get things running. Use the following command or click the package
names to install the requirements:

sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-kernel-devel linux-headers-generic xinetd




sudo aptitude install linux-headers-server
sudo aptitude install linux-headers-generic

Installation and Configuration

Let’s unpack the VMware archive that we downloaded and run the VMware installer.

tar xf VMware-server-1.0.6-*.tar.gz

cd vmware-server-distrib

sudo ./vmware-install.pl



The Last Step

If you attempt to run vmware at this point you might notice that it
spits out some nasty errors and complains at you. There is one more
thing we need to setup.

Basically VMware is missing and complaining about some cairo
libraries and gcc. So, the simple fix for this is to point to them by
using a symbolic link:

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/gcc/i486-linux-gnu/4.2.3/libgcc_s.so /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1

sudo ln -sf /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0