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Debian: VMware Server 1.x and Debian Etch

To install VMware Server 1.x:

Install the following packages if you don’t already have them:

aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-($uname -r) openssl libssl-dev psmisc

Untar the package, navigate to vmware-server-distrib directory and type

./vmware-install.pl

To install VMware Tools:

The following packages are needed in order to install VMware Tools:

aptitude install build-essential linux-headers-($uname -r)

Open VMware Server Console and Click VM – Install VMware Tools. Then go to your guest Debain VM and mount the CD:

mount /dev/cdrom

I usually copy tar files to the hard drive and extract:

cp /media/cdrom0/VMwareTools-1.0.8-126538.tar.gz /root

cd /root/

tar -zxf VMwareTools-1.0.8-126538.tar.gz

If you want to directly untar it to another directory:

tar -zxf /media/cdrom0/VMwareTools-1.0.8-126538.tar.gz -C <directory>

Navigate to vmware-tools-distrib and execute the install command:

./vmware-install.pl

Follow directions and you should be able to install VMware Tools without incident.

Note: If you are running an early release of Debian Etch you may be asked to provide path to C compiler directory. That means you do not have a compiler installed and will have to install the following two packages:

aptitude install gcc-3.4 g++-3.4

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