Debian etch Vmware Mui install

Hi All..

Having at stupid issue.
I'm running vmware-server 1.0.5 on at debian etch workstation.
The vmware-server 1.0.5 is running perfect, but I'm not able to install the vmware-mui :-(

when I run perl vmware-install.perl I accepts the eula and gets the following message .....

And the vmware server and it's guest systems is running!
I'm able to connect to the server using vmware-server-console...
Have any one seen this issue before, and what todo for fix'ing it ??

 

What's the output of

Code:

uname -a

?

 

Uname -a

hi Falco

Hop that you have a idea what's wrong ;-)

Code:

hostname:~# uname -a
Linux hostname 2.6.18-6-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 22:11:31 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux

Fyi I hostname is NOT the real servername...

 

Looks ok.
Have you tried to install it as root?

 

root

Yes, I ran the installation as root, just one boot after I Installed the latest version of vmware-server 1.0.5 or something with the root user...
Strange ????
I properly have to read the vmware-installer.pl code and look into how the MUI installation verify that the vmware-server is installed and running on the computer....
But the easy way was asking around first, before reverse engineering the vmware install perl script...

 

And if I understood you right, VMware server is installed on the same system?

 

yep

Yep. Vmware Server and is running on the workstation !
That's the funny bit,why cant the MUI installer not find the server instance

 

Issue Solved

I searched the vmware-install.pl for

Code:

VMware Server must be installed

and ended up a line index "1793,14" and comment out that function.

Code:

  # Make sure VMware Server is installed
 # if ($vmware_version ne "vserver") {
 #   uninstall_file($gInstallerMainDB);
 #   error('VMware Server must be installed on this machine for the ' .
 #    vmware_product_name() . ' to work'
 #   . "\n\n");
#  }

This solved my issue and I have the MUI installed now and up and running..