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installing VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle .bundle Vmware Player


how to install VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle ?

chmod +x VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle
./VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle
./VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle: line 302: /tmp/vmis.nMJGsk/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer: Permission denied

sed -ne'299,303p' VMware-Player-3.1.4-385536.x86_64.bundle
   # Pass all options the user passed in so that the correct UI type
   # gets set.
   "$installer" --set-setting vmware-installer libconf "$libconf"   \
                --install-component "$source"/vmware-installer      \

Solution

  • Figured this one out. It took me a while, but it was one of those silly little things that you wish you'd thought of earlier. I had /tmp mounted with the noexec flag so it couldn't run the extracted installer script from the /tmp folder.

    I started bash. Did an su Then edited the /etc/fstab to remove the noexec option using vi. Saved the fstab Rebooted Now the installer works :-)