Installation problem.
hi! I attempted to install VMware Server in Ubuntu Studio 7.04 using synaptics but having an error. it keeps on telling me that there is a previous installationg of the vmware server present on my personal computer. I almost tried everything. Im pretty sure i removed all the packages related to the vm server. and attempted to reinstall it but still having the same problem. here is the log i have from teminal. I hope this helps. by the way, i installed the VMware Player prior to installing the VMware server but had it removed before installing the server.
root@support:/home/jilbert# sudo aptitude remove vmware*
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
Couldn't find package "vmware". However, the following
packages contain "vmware" in their name:
vmware-player vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15
vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16
vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.15-23 vmware-server-kernel-modules
vmware-tools-kernel-modules vmware-player-kernel-source
vmware-player-kernel-modules vmware-server xserver-xorg-video-vmware
vmware-tools-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15
vmware-tools-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16 vmware-server-kernel-source
vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15
vmware-server-kernel-modules-2.6.20-16
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
root@support:/home/jilbert# sudo aptitude install vmware-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
vmware-server
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/79.4MB of archives. After unpacking 131MB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 131285 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vmware-server (from .../vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
root@support:/home/jilbert# clear
root@support:/home/jilbert# sudo aptitude remove vmware-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
No packages will be installed, upgraded, or removed.
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
root@support:/home/jilbert# sudo aptitude install vmware-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Building tag database... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
vmware-server
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/79.4MB of archives. After unpacking 131MB will be used.
Writing extended state information... Done
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 131285 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vmware-server (from .../vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
A package failed to install. Trying to recover:
