Vmware for Mandrake Linux 9.0

[mtcald01]

Hi everybody,
I am having big problems... I decided to take the leap to Linux and I downloaded Mandrake 9.0 .. I have been trying to install VMware with no success at all. It seems like everything I try to do goes wrong. I downloaded the trial version of VMware from the vmware website, it is version 3.2.0 vmware Workstation... One thing to note is that I previously had installed 3.0 and could not get it to work... but I have done rpm -e with many different combinations of Vmware, VMwareWorkstation, etc, and it says there is no rpm installed by that name. So I have downloaded version 3.2 and I try to unpack it, i do an rpm -Uvh VM*.rpm and I get this:
Preparing: ########################### 100%
1: VMWareWorkstation error: unpacking of archive failed on file /usr/lib/vmware/isoimages/linux.iso;3dc1b743: cpio: read

I had also been having problems with version 3.0 where when I ran vmware-config.pl, when it asked for the directory for the include files for the kernel, it wouldn't accept anything.... If anybody has any idea how I can resolve any of this, it would be GREATLY appreciated :) I have been trying it seems like forever to try to get this to work and it is starting to get a little frustrating :) Thanks in advance,
Matt C.

[Gnufsh]

I installed it without much problem about a week ago. I don't remember anything, and I had no previous install... But anyway, it can work, if you keep trying (umm... just trying to give some encouragement)...

-Dan

[mdwatts]

Use

rpm -qa | grep VMw (or variations)

to find the exact name of the rpm package and then

rpm -e packagename (without the version and extension)

to uninstall.

You need to have the kernel source installed for the current running kernel version.

uname -r will tell you the kernel version you are running.

Look for the ?? kernel-source-#.#.#.i386.rpm package on your Mandrake install cd(s) and install using rpm -Uvh package...

[bwkaz]

And "cpio: read" errors from rpm are usually the result of a corrupted download. Does the VMware site have md5sums available to check your downloaded file against? If they do, md5sum filename will print out the actual hash, and then you can compare it to the md5sum that's posted. If they're different, re-download, but you might want to clear your browser's cache (if you don't, it might not re-download, but might just copy the (corrupted) file out of its cache instead).