Tried installing the OVF Tool for 32 bit under Ubuntu 9.10 but got the following error.
./VMware-ovftool-2.0.1-260188-lin.i386.sh
./VMware-ovftool-2.0.1-260188-lin.i386.sh: line 108: syntax error near unexpected token `newline'
./VMware-ovftool-2.0.1-260188-lin.i386.sh: line 108: `<html>'
make sure that the checksum of the downloaded version is the same as on the download page.
3rd times a charm. Checksum was incorrect. Download was sucessful on 3rd attempt.