VMware Player on Fedora

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A brief description of how to install VMware Player on Fedora 8.

First, make sure your system is fully yum updated (and rebooted if necessary), and has the following packages installed: 

$ rpm -q gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel

Next, download the latest, appropriate version of the VMware Player RPM from [here], and install it normally.

Configure with: 

# /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl

Unless you're doing something out of the ordinary, just keep hitting ENTER to accept the default answers for everything. When you're done, you can run VMware Player either with: 

$ /usr/bin/vmplayer

or you can find it under the Applications -> System Tools menu.

NOTE: Those folks familiar with older versions of VMware might wonder where the "vmware-any-any-update" tarball patch went. In this case, you don't need it and it causes [problems] anyway.

Feedback to rpjday@crashcourse.ca.

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