I found many great tutorials and howto’s but had to use several combinations before I ended up with a perfect installation of VMware 1.0.4 on my Feisty Server build. This will hopefully help the next troubled soul.
Lets assume this is a fresh new Feisty Server install and you’ve run all the necessary updates.
Next you’ll need to install a few things from a command line:
First off you’ll want to find out what version you have…
sudo uname -r
sudo aptitude install linux-headers-’uname version here’
(Note: If you are using a 64 bit OS you may need to download the i386 version as well to help support the VMware package.)
sudo aptitude install libx11-6 libx11-dev libxtst6 xlibs-dev
sudo aptitude install gcc binutils-doc cpp-doc make manpages-dev autoconf automake1.9 libtool flex bison gdb gcc-doc
After I installed these I followed the rest of this tutorial and the setup went smoothly.
