Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

[Till Wimmer <news-dfn@substring.ch>]

Hi Michael,

are you sure that the binary package of VMWare works for 64bit architecture?

Till

michael wrote:
> eg: 
> The installation of VMware Player 2.0.3 build-80004 for Linux completed
> successfully. You can decide to remove this software from your system at
> any
> time by invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-uninstall.pl".
>
> Before running VMware Player for the first time, you need to configure
> it by
> invoking the following command: "/usr/bin/vmware-config.pl". Do you want
> this
> program to invoke the command for you now? [yes]
>
> The following libraries could not be found on your system:
> libX11.so.6
> libXtst.so.6
> libXext.so.6
> libXrender.so.1
> libz.so.1
>
> You will need to install these manually before you can run VMware
> Player.
>
>
> but yet:
> mkb@amd64:~$ locate libX11.so.6
> /usr/lib/libX11.so.6
> /usr/lib/libX11.so.6.2.0
>
>
> So, I'm confused!