VMware Server 1.X MUI Component Installation

Environment

• Ubuntu 8.04 x64
• VMware Server 1.06

Procedures

#tar zxvf VMware-mui-.tar.gz
#/vmware-mui-distrib/vmware-install.pl

If got this message

EULA
Do you accept? (yes/no) yes

Thank you.

Installing the content of the package.

VMware Server must be installed on this machine for the VMware Management
Interface to work

Execution aborted.

Try to edit vmware-install.pl, which just a shortcut. Search "VMware Server must be installed", then comment(#) these for bypass this check

Make sure VMware Server is installed
if ($vmware_version ne "vserver") {
uninstall_file($gInstallerMainDB);
error('VMware Server must be installed on this machine for the ' .
vmware_product_name() . ' to work'
. "\n\n");
}

Got this error, while running vmware-config-mui.pl

starting httpd.vmware:-ne failed

Solve this by

#ln -s -f /bin/bash /bin/sh
#vmware-config-mui.pl