VMWare player[SOLVED]

[excollier]

Firstly, forgive my ignorance - I am tying to make the transition from a Debian base to Salix - so I need a little guidance here.
I need to be able to install VMWare player so I can run Windows 8 in a VM for copying user profiles from windows computers ( it's just easier to use Windows for Windows).
Every time I run the installer for the linux bundle it fails and says install was unsuccessful. If I can get it working I can break away from Debian.
Can anyone point me in the right direction, please?

[laprjns]

More of a Virtualbox person myself so I can't be much help. First guess would be do you have the kernel-souurce package installed?

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$ sudo slapt-get --update
$ sudo slapt-get --install kernel-source

Post the error messages you are getting an maybe something will jump out.

[excollier]

I followed your suggestion, that part worked, but still no change with VMWare..
The installer runs - begins the install then at about 75% it rolls back and de-configures and then uninstalls leaving a message saying "installation was unsucessful". Nothing about missing dependencies or anything like that.
I use VMWare because I have some Windows virtual machines set up the way I need them and VMware seems happier to connect external drives for copying profiles than does VirtualBox.

[djemos]

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sudo sh VMware-$NAME-$VERSION.bundle --console --ignore-errors

[laprjns]

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sudo sh VMware-$NAME-$VERSION.bundle  --ignore-errors

It works without the --console also and you don't have to manually scroll through the licenses.

[excollier]

Thanks, I'll try that tomorrow.

[excollier]

Thanks for the tip - it worked!! Looks like I will be moving over to Salix soon.