There is a mistake in the dependencies?

[TScheinert]

I,ve allready send this to vmware-builds@vmware.com, but there was no response.

Dear vmware-Team,

I think that I've found a mistake in your dependencies of the vmware-tools packages for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

--> http://packages.vmware.com/tools/esx/4.1latest/ubuntu/dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/Packages

Package: vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-2.6.32-21-server
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 400
Maintainer: VMware Build Team <vmware-builds@vmware.com>
Architecture: amd64
Source: vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod
Version: 8.3.7-0.341836
Provides: vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-8.3.7-0.341836

Depends: linux-image-2.6.32-21-server | linux-image-2.6.32-21-virtual

Filename: dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-2.6.32-21-server_8.3.7-0.341836_ubuntu10.04.amd64.deb
Size: 97266
MD5sum: 488ae521d1a66eeabd1ec723aff5004a
SHA1: d852902a57f98ab111b1a32b06fc1d0ce4ffa546
SHA256: 1830eb8899ff839af2ab8b2352b49a95985b9d5313a341a7d1be3403674c8791
Description:
This package provides the kernel modules for the 2.6.32-21-server kernel to enable
the tools associated with vmware-open-vm-tools.

In the line depends, there is also the virtual kernel.
So lets take a look at the packages for the 2.6.32.24

Package: vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-2.6.32-24-server
Priority: optional
Section: misc
Installed-Size: 400
Maintainer: VMware Build Team <vmware-builds@vmware.com>
Architecture: amd64
Source: vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod
Version: 8.3.7-0.341836
Provides: vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-8.3.7-0.341836

Depends: linux-image-2.6.32-24-server

Filename: dists/lucid/main/binary-amd64/vmware-open-vm-tools-kmod-2.6.32-24-server_8.3.7-0.341836_ubuntu10.04.amd64.deb
Size: 97258
MD5sum: fefb3e935f1985f594175f18206f3b7b
SHA1: 3db6b12ebdd0086cab18595941458bc5a99e8b87
SHA256: 993b305a3ab4cb9248df1ed11e1f95eda71211f06b01734665767a85c84cc9d2
Description:
This package provides the kernel modules for the 2.6.32-24-server kernel to enable
the tools associated with vmware-open-vm-tools.

There is only the non virtual server kernel. So my virtual machines are making trouble, because they would downgrade oder change the kernel from -virtual to server.

I think the line should be:

--> Depends: linux-image-2.6.32-24-server | linux-image-2.6.32-24-virtual

I hope you understand what I mean, and probably you can fix this problem very soon.

Greeting Tobias

[briwag]

I ran into this yesterday when setting up the VMware Tools on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.

I got it up and running but I wasn't expecting the errors and it threw me for a loop. Not as smooth as running the install in CentOS or RHEL.

[TScheinert]

Hi,

this is a new problem, vmware updated the tools for the kernel 2.6.32-24. In the old version (8.3.2), the dependencies were correct ... then they updatet (8.3.7) their repository ... and now its broken.

For me is an other OS no option, because I'm using special software. It is not very annoying, because my update scripts do not auto-update the vmware tools and the linux kernel.

Greeting Tobias