Re: First impressions of Etch and trying to get vmware server to run (amd64)
Bruno Buys wrote:
Paul Walsh wrote:
I did a amd64 etch install two days ago. There was an issue with vmware,
but different from yours. Mine installed ok, but when running
vmware-config.pl it complained about linux headers, which i did have ok.
Look at a thread called 'vmware on newer kernels (was debian rocks!)',
or something like this. Nice ppl from this list pointed me to a patch
which solved, so now vmware does ok. And its the vmware server version.
Etch is very likely to start quicker than suse. I had this impression
when i first installed woody, compared to suse 8.2 that I was using. Its
a nice system, though a little bloated.
Thanks Bruno and Jorg. After I installed ia32-libs I got a bit further and can now access my VMs :-) I've even
pointed IceDove at my Thunderbird directory and have access to all the mail there. Next stop: IceWeasel and Java plugin. ..
So far I've downloaded JRE 1.5.0 (self-extracting .bin file) from Sun and extracted it in /usr/java (so I end up with
/usr/java/jre1.5.0)
I then created symlinks in /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins and /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins which pointed to
/usr/java/jre1.5.0/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so but *still* iceweasel can't find the plugin. Any suggestions
folks?
There's usually a solution to these problems, and I don't mind pking around until they're fixed, but if every Linux in
its myriad flavours is going to make inroads into M$ territory these niggles need to be sorted out.
I have my own version of M$ new slogan: instead of "Wow!" it's more likely to be "WTF!"
:D
Paul
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