Alan wrote:

I tried to get VMWare Server running on Fedora 9. Notices that it needs
to have the 32 bit version of libXtst installed. This does not get
installed on x86_64.

Does this library drag in further 32 bit libraries that are needed?

These libraries get loaded in F8.

I will fill out a bug report as well.



You are expected to manually install stuff like this.

yum install libXtst.i386 should do it.

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> Alan wrote:
>> I tried to get VMWare Server running on Fedora 9. Notices that it needs
>> to have the 32 bit version of libXtst installed. This does not get
>> installed on x86_64.
>>
>> Does this library drag in further 32 bit libraries that are needed?
>>
>> These libraries get loaded in F8.
>>
>> I will fill out a bug report as well.
>>
>
> You are expected to manually install stuff like this.
>
> yum install libXtst.i386 should do it.

I didn't have to manually load the 32 bit libraries like that in F8.

I expect there will be great amounts of confusion when F9 is released.

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Alan wrote:


yum install libXtst.i386 should do it.


I didn't have to manually load the 32 bit libraries like that in F8.


Yes. The multilib policy has changed and we don't install 32-bit libs on
a 64-bit system by default anymore. You can change it in yum.conf by
setting multilib_policy=all. The default is best.


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Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Alan wrote:


yum install libXtst.i386 should do it.


I didn't have to manually load the 32 bit libraries like that in F8.


Yes. The multilib policy has changed and we don't install 32-bit libs on
a 64-bit system by default anymore. You can change it in yum.conf by
setting multilib_policy=all. The default is best.


What does it hurt to have a library installed that is unused some of the
time?


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Les Mikesell wrote:

Rahul Sundaram wrote:

Alan wrote:


yum install libXtst.i386 should do it.


I didn't have to manually load the 32 bit libraries like that in F8.


Yes. The multilib policy has changed and we don't install 32-bit libs
on a 64-bit system by default anymore. You can change it in yum.conf
by setting multilib_policy=all. The default is best.


What does it hurt to have a library installed that is unused some of the
time?


The policy change was already proposed and discussed in this list.
We don't have space on the live cd. Any software that is unused also
adds to disk space, costs bandwidth (both on the systems as well as the
mirrors) to keep it updated and increases the potential for security
issues and sometimes additional maintenance overhead.


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Warren Togami pÃ*Å¡e v Pá 18. 04. 2008 v 19:39 -0400:
> Alan wrote:
> > I tried to get VMWare Server running on Fedora 9. Notices that it needs
> > to have the 32 bit version of libXtst installed. This does not get
> > installed on x86_64.
> >
> > Does this library drag in further 32 bit libraries that are needed?
> >
> > These libraries get loaded in F8.
> >
> > I will fill out a bug report as well.
> >
>
> You are expected to manually install stuff like this.
>
> yum install libXtst.i386 should do it.

would not "yum localinstall vmware.rpm" take it automagicaly?


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On Saturday 19 April 2008 02:07:25 am Les Mikesell wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Alan wrote:
> >>> yum install libXtst.i386 should do it.
> >>
> >> I didn't have to manually load the 32 bit libraries like that in F8.
> >
> > Yes. The multilib policy has changed and we don't install 32-bit libs on
> > a 64-bit system by default anymore. You can change it in yum.conf by
> > setting multilib_policy=all. The default is best.
>
> What does it hurt to have a library installed that is unused some of the
> time?

Its been discussed at length, but my personal favorite reason: It annoys the
living crap out of a bunch of people to have all these extra unneeded bits
installed. If I need/want something 32-bit, I'll install it myself,
otherwise, I just want the 64-bit bits. Less stuff to yum upgrade if you
don't have umpteen extra unneeded 32-bit bits laying about. Part of my usual
dance when installing a 64-bit system in the past has been to immediately yum
remove all the 32-bit stuff before doing anything else, so I don't have to
wait for those worthless bits to be upgraded -- time spent calculating the
upgrade, time spent downloading, time spent installing, etc. (Yes, I'm
impatient, but for some people, time is money. For others, more bits to
transfer across the wire is money. And so on.)


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Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9?

I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config
script and everything seems to be installed correctly.
When I try to connect to the web management server, it
tells me that the server is not responding.

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> Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9?
>
> I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config
> script and everything seems to be installed correctly.
> When I try to connect to the web management server, it
> tells me that the server is not responding.

Noting that I've not worked, yet, with VMWare, at all, I still think the
question needs to be asked:

Did you start the VMWare server processes?


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Mike Burger wrote:

Has anyone been able to get VMWare Server running on F9?

I've installed VMWare Server from the rpm, run the config
script and everything seems to be installed correctly.
When I try to connect to the web management server, it
tells me that the server is not responding.


Noting that I've not worked, yet, with VMWare, at all, I still think the
question needs to be asked:

Did you start the VMWare server processes?


An easier question (based on how VMWare is packaged) is did you run the
vmware-config.pl script that comes with the RPM? It will shutdown any
running services, and compile the necessary kernel modules for your
running kernel (if you haven't made them already, and, no, just
installing the RPM does not do this), and then start them up again.


After that (if it was successful), you should be able to connect to the
server.


Good Luck!

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