Installing VMware Workstation 6.5 in Ubuntu…

Posted by Duncan Epping in October 22nd, 2008
Published in Desktop

I just downloaded the .bundle file for my Ubuntu 8.10 Workstation at home. So what to do next? I’ve been using Debian and Ubuntu off and on for a while so I’m used to “apt-get install”. But this is a .bundle file, so no apt-get for this application. Well the answer was really simple just run the bundle file:

  • sudo sh VMware-Workstation-6.5.0-118166.i386.bundle
So far I really like Ubuntu 8.10! It seems to do everything it needs to do straight out ot the box! By the way, Sven Warren wrote an extensive howto for installing WS6.5 on Ubuntu. It would be nice if VMware would create a debian repository for this download so we can update it with apt-get…

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1. Wall said,
October 28th, 2008 at 13:48

Thank you so very much for this, I have been hunting down how too install VMware 6.5 with the .bundle all night.

Thanks again.

2. Alvaro said,
November 1st, 2008 at 16:56

Thank you very much!

3. Max said,
November 1st, 2008 at 23:28

Thanks :)

5. Jorge Cárdenas said,
November 2nd, 2008 at 10:10

gracias por la info!!!
saludoss desde chile

6. Aaron said,
November 2nd, 2008 at 14:41

Thanks, this helped me out too.

7. sherlockholmes said,
November 3rd, 2008 at 08:30

It would be nice if VMware would create a debian repository for this download so we can update it with apt-get…

VMware is a proprietary software. It’s not free. So no chance of it to be in a repository.

8. Duncan said,
November 3rd, 2008 at 09:52

I know it’s not free, but they could at least create a deb package and have the packages available for apt-get.

9. gump2k said,
November 5th, 2008 at 08:33

thanks your the best

10. Matt said,
November 7th, 2008 at 15:24

Thanks much!!!

11. Laca said,
November 13th, 2008 at 06:51

Thank you for your help!!!

12. Koen said,
November 19th, 2008 at 22:37

Thanks a lot, and an apt-get would be nice, or at least a .deb package

13. sidim said,
November 21st, 2008 at 23:40

Hi,

I currently have VMWARE server 2 installed and would like to switch to the workstation version.
Any Idea on how to remove the vmware server installation. Iḿ getting this error when trying to install the workstation version:

VMware Server cannot quiesce. Please suspend or power off each VM.

Thanks,

14. Duncan Epping said,
November 22nd, 2008 at 08:39

it almost seems like there’s still a VM running. I would suggest killing all VMware Server related processes before deinstalling.

15. JosephTys said,
November 25th, 2008 at 10:36

THnak you

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