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jamessnell
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 Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 3:43 pm Post subject: Challenges using RPM: installing VMPlayer |
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I'd really love to use vmplayer on my gentoo box, but I'm not really sure how to get it installed. I downloaded the rpm for vmplayer and emerged rpm, but when I try to install it, I get this:
| Code: | Neptune# rpm -Uvh VMware-player-1.0.0-16981.i386.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
/bin/sh is needed by VMwarePlayer-1.0.0-1698
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I took a look and sure enough there was no /bin/sh.. After wearing my investigator's hat for awhile, I noticed that on my fedora box /bin/sh is just a sym link to /bin/bash.. So, I made a sym link on my machine just the same and retried installation only to get the exact same result.
Does anyone have any suggestions????
Thanks,
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jamessnell
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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Okay, so I've unemerged rpm, downloaded the tarball and now I'm stuck on a question from the installer
| Code: | What is the directory that contains the init directories (rc0.d/ to
rc6.d/)? |
There are no rc directories anywhere in /etc, or so find says.
What should I give it?? |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:27 pm Post subject: |
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/etc/init.d
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jamessnell
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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| Code: | | The path "/etc/init.d" is a directory which does not contain a rc0.d directory. |
The installer 'works' if I create some directory with rc{0-6}.d, but of course, it creates scripts that I need to run in some of those directories.. Those scripts can be copied to /etc/init.d and manually installed from there, but I get consistenet error messages claiming vmplayer isn't properly configured. |
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Tiger683
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Which tells us: baselayout of gentoo isn't compliant with redhat/Suse/whatever standard, hmm....
I would file a bug on vmware bugzilla (or whatever they use) so they make the installer flexible and
include support for gentoo init layout.
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jamessnell
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| Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2005 6:52 pm Post subject: |
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I suppose.. I don't think it's actually that complicated of a problem, just a matter of taking the time to figure it out..
At which point I can submit a message to vmware about it.
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