Ubuntu – Installing VMware Player on Ubuntu 9.04

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I want to install VMware Player on Ubuntu 9.04. The official VMware download page does not have a deb package. Should I use their RPM? Or is there a better way to do this?

Best Answer

The VMWare Player installation on Ubuntu is much different than VMWare Server. It's entirely painless, and many less steps. Download the '.bundle' version for Linux after registering on the VMWare website. Save .bundle file to your desktop (or where ever). From a command prompt, run:

sudo ./VMware-Player-2.5.1-126130.i386.bundle

and follow the on screen installation wizard (it's pretty straight forward - I don't think you need to install/compile any additional components with Ubuntu 9.04 - it's currently supported out of the box).

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