Re: vmplayer installer cannot find libs (amd64)

[michael <cs@networkingnewsletter.org.uk>]

On Sat, 2008-05-17 at 06:45 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> 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!
> 
> vmplayer is probably expecting the 32-bit libraries. Install ia32-libs 
> and ia32-libs-gtk and retry the installation of vmplayer.
> 

Fantastic! Installing ia32-libs did the trick!
Now if only I could work out how to make some folders on my amd64 Debian
system appear on the WinXP virtual machine (without dragging them)!

Thanks! Michael