Re: Installing VMWare on Debian

[John Gould <johng@skeletor.powinv.co.uk>]

You can teel vmware to install in /usr/local, there is no need to install
in /usr.

Regards JohnG

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On Thu, 13 Jan 2000, Alberto Brealey G. wrote:

> 
> I want to install the newest (1.1.2) VMWare under debian, but i see that
> they changed the program locations a while ago, so now everything goes on
> /usr, instead of /usr/local. I tried to run alien on the tgz, but it fails.
> Is there any way of installing VMWare without screwing dpkg by putting stuff
> under /usr? I'm using potato.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> alberto
> 
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