We need VMware packages for Fedora and Debian (was: C header files location)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:26:42PM -0500, Jason Spiro wrote:
> Do VMware not ship packages for Fedora Core? I know they don't have 
> Debian packages. There's only a vmware-player package in Debian.
> 
> I wish VMware was packaged for Debian. We should all write to VMware and 
> suggest it. Anyone know the proper email address is?

I just use the vmware tar file and install to /usr/local and it works
perfectly.  The unisntall cleans up nicely too.  It is one of the few
things that goes cleanly and easily enough that I haven't made debian
packages for it and I tend to do that for most things I install.

> By the way, Marc Haber has kindly created a Debian package (in contrib) 
> called vmware-package. Description follows. Marc, perhaps you know: do 
> VMware have any plans for creating real Debian packages for VMware Server?
> 
> "This package provides the capability to create Debian packages for
> various VMware products and related software by obtaining VMware
> tarballs and then just running make-vmpkg.

Hmm, I should look at that.

> It can currently build Debian packages for the following VMware and
> VMware related products:
> 
>    * VMware kernel modules for Linux, using the vmware-any-any tarball
> 
> It is planned to extend make-vmkg to build Debian packages for the
> following VMware products:
> 
>    * VMware Player 1.0.2
> 
> Please note that you need to download the corresponding tarballs
> yourself, and that the resulting .deb files are non-free and
> non-distributable.
> 
> The package is meant to aid a local admin to roll out VMware products
> to their local systems by means of the packaging system."

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