Re: vmware vmserver 2 is avail
On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 15:06 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-09-25 at 07:22 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> VMware's vmserver 2 is out.
> >>
> >> Anybody figure out how to use wget to download it?
> >>
> >> Hugo
> >>
> >>
> > On another note, while I am on the subject:
> >
> > They way I install server/workstation is quite different from most ways
> > I see published on the web on this list.
> >
> > I download the .rpm: alien --scripts *.rpm
> >
> > dpkg -i vmserver-blah.rpm
> >
> > In this way your package manager knows it is installed. Newer versions
> > are easy to deal with, just use dpkg -i to install those and your
> > package is updated to the new version. Problems? Just use
> > apt/synaptic/dpkg to uninstall it.
> >
> > I have never (but once during a 25 kernel IIRC) had to use the famous
> > any-any patch using this method.
> >
>
> But have you installed with either 2.6.25 or 2.6.26 kernels?
>
> Hugo
>
@dam-main:~$ uname -r
2.6.26.cybo.2.0
@dam-main:~$ dpkg -l |grep vmware
ii vmware-workstation 6.5.0-110069
VMware Workstation
ii xserver-xorg-video-vmware 1:10.16.2-1
X.Org X server -- VMware display driver
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