it says no such file or directory

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admin Reply:
December 29th, 2009 at 2:39 am

Check where you download the package.If you are using firefox,goto EDIT->PREFERENCES or TOOLS->OPTIONS and you can see where the downloaded file saved in main tab.By default it is ~/Download/,so first navigate to the folder in terminal:
cd ~/Download
then give it executable privilege and install:
chmod +x VMware-Player*.bundle
gksudo bash ./VMware-Player*.bundle
Don’t just copy and paste privous command.change VMware-Player*.bundle to you downloaded package name.Type first few letters “WMware-Player” and press tab key

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Hello. Hope u can help with this:
- I just installed & configured Ub 9.10 on my desk top. Everything working normally.
- Downloaded VMware-Player-2.5.3-185404.x86_64.bundle
- chmod +x *bundle
- sudo ./*bundle
VM Player Installer window popped up
- Clicked on the ‘Install’ button
The progress bar started going; above the bar, it says that the installer is ‘Configuring’

This is was more than 15 minutes ago and still going.
Nothing else is running on the system (consuming CPU, mem, …)

Is the ‘Configuring’ step supposed to take this long? Seems to me it might be hung.

Question:
1. Did i do something wrong?
2. Is there a log some place that can help me to debug this?

Thx
DF

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Hassan Reply:
January 7th, 2010 at 4:45 am

I’ve the same problem

(The progress bar started going; above the bar, it says that the installer is ‘Configuring’ This is was more than 15 minutes ago and still going.),

Please guide us what to do in this case?

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I have a similar issue where install is not ging anywhere after configuring message

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This worked exactly as described, in a new install of Kubuntu 9.10. I was able to open and use a WinXP virtual machine image that I created in VMware for Windows on my work machine.

Thanks for posting this guide.

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i have the same as THAER… ‘Configuring’ is going on forever. Didn’t happen last time to did this with 9.04

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DF: Please look at the following page. It says how to fix the problem we both are facing.

http://my.opera.com/titzesan/blog/ubuntu-9-10-installing-vmware-player-2-5-3

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The link above to “my.opera” is broken. But I found this post:

http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3106715.0

Which states that to fix the “Configuring” stage of the installation you will want to run the following command before running the installer:

export VMWARE_SKIP_MODULES=true

After running that command you can then run the installation command:

gksudo bash ./VMware-Player*.bundle

The reason that the installer stops at configuring is that it’s trying to compile modules and load them into your kernel. But, VMWare Player will do this when it starts up anyway so you can skip this step during installation (which the export variable command does).

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Thanks DH, your tip works for me.

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Thank you..

it worked for me as exactly as mentioned……….

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This did not work. I’m having trouble installing this program.

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This really helped me. Thank you very much.

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all I did was kill the installation task using ’sudo kill -9 xxx’ until even the installer was gone and then use the menu to launch VMWare Player. it said it needed to build modules and it did and only the network module failed. I don’t need the network for my VM right now so it’s good enough.

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the instruction above gave me this error:
./VMware-Player-3.0.0-203739.i386.bundle: line 110: syntax error near unexpected token `newline’
./VMware-Player-3.0.0-203739.i386.bundle: line 110: `’

Can you tell me what I’ve done wrong?

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victor Reply:
June 15th, 2010 at 10:35 am

felix,

check the md5sum of the downloaded bundle; mine was incorrect. I deleted the package then chose manual download, and I’m now able to install.

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hi,

i’m getting the same error as felix.

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I’m not getting to the install page for Player. I’m getting the followingno such file or directory. the file is in the downloads folder and permission has been set, anyhelp would gratefully received. This is now the six version I’ve tried to install.

lee@lee-laptop:~$ chmod +x VMware-Player-2.5.4-246459.i386.bundle
chmod: cannot access `VMware-Player-2.5.4-246459.i386.bundle’: No such file or directory
lee@lee-laptop:~$ chmod +x VMware-Player*.bundle
chmod: cannot access `VMware-Player*.bundle’: No such file or directory
lee@lee-laptop:~$ gksudo bash ./VMware-Player*.bundle
lee@lee-laptop:~$ gksudo bash ./VMware-Player*.bundle
bash: ./VMware-Player*.bundle: No such file or directorylee@lee-laptop:~$
lee@lee-laptop:~$
lee@lee-laptop:~$ chmod +x VMware-Player
chmod: cannot access `VMware-Player’: No such file or directory
lee@lee-laptop:~$
lee@lee-laptop:~$

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admin Reply:
July 26th, 2010 at 8:09 pm

Hi,Lee!
“lee@lee-laptop:~$” means you are executing commands in your user folder (/home/user-name).You said that the file is in the downloads folder,so you need to navigate to this folder first(run cd Downloads/) and make it looks like “lee@lee-laptop:~/Downloads$ ”
then run the previous commands.

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Hi
Thanks for that. I’m very new to ubuntu and linux. I am stuck on the configuring section right at the end of installing player. Tried the above post running export vmware etc but no luck so far. any clues please ?

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Hi

Ok, I downloaded version 3.1.0 player tried that with all of the above and now I’m getting the message “magic number doesn’t match. Anyone know what that means please?

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