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After installing the new free VMware Server product I couldn't get the
vmware-mui-distrib tarball to install. It kept aborting with the message
"Failure" after saying it detected an previous install of vmware. Duh!, I
had put it there.
The previous install wasn't actually the problem though. I found the
[limited instrux for the new release|http://www.vmware.com/support/server/doc/releasenotes_server_beta.html#install]
and the said make sure libdb.so.3 is installed, which comes in the
compat-db rpm, btw. I installed it, still no luck.
Looking at the perl code it seemed to be looking for a previous install of
the mui in /etc/vmware-mui. That wasn't on this new box of course. I
first just created the /etc/vmware-mui dir but that only got me a little
further. Then it wanted the old install info in the "locations" file.
So, I copied the whole /etc/vmware-mui from proc2 to vmserver1. Then it
complained about not being able to run /usr/bin/vmware-mui-unistall.pl so
I copied that over too.
This got the install going and it was painless after that. It had a lot
of errors about "trying to remove xxx but it was already removed" but that
was just because xxx hadn't been installed yet, of course.
File this one under bugs in betas.
