Help installing vSphere CLI on Linux 64-bit

[beaconfield]

Hello!

I am trying to get the vSphere CLI working on my Fedora 13 64-bit box and I'm running into an issue when I try to run commands after installation. I downloaded the 64-bit tar.gz for the vSphere CLI 4.0 U2, unpacked it, and ran the installer script which completed flawlessly. It installed all the right binaries under /usr/bin. (Although during installation it asks me to overwrite a bunch of files in /usr/lib64/perl5/ and I just accepted the defaults)

When I try to run a command, like vicfg-vswitch, i get the following error.

/usr/bin/perl: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/perl5/auto/XML/LibXML/Common/Common.so: undefined symbol: Perl_Tstack_sp_ptr

Essentially I can't even use the vCLI.

Does anyone know what the error means or have a good guide on installing the vCLI for Linux? The VMware documentation doesn't give me information on how to deal with these errors.

[lamw · Accepted solution]

Take a look at this thread for your answer -

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[mshamma]

What link are you referring to? I can't seem to find any link to the thread you are referring to.

[Lokidiabel]

Did u had any luck with this ? I am fighting the same Problem...

Or does it simply not work on RHEL 6.

Gruß

Lukas