Topic: unable to get VMware Server working in 7.4

[veebr0]

Dear friend i Just reading in sole old post, Today I am installing the vmware VMware-server-1.0.9-156507.i386.rpm

But when I run the following commands:
yum install /path/to/VMware-server.rpm smeserver-vmware-server --enablerepo=smecontribs

I just recieved the following errors:
ARNING: Additional commands may be required after running yum
==============================================================
Loading "smeserver" plugin
Loading "fastestmirror" plugin
Loading "installonlyn" plugin
Setting up Install Process
Setting up repositories
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Reading repository metadata in from local files
Excluding Packages from CentOS - os
Finished
Excluding Packages from CentOS - updates
Finished
Parsing package install arguments
Importing Additional filelist information for dependency resolution
No Match for argument: /path/to/VMware-server.rpm
No Match for argument: smeserver-vmware-server
Nothing to do
Any Idea?
Thanks in advance.

Eviny

[christian]

I'll refrain from being flippant as I assume you just had momentary lapse. 

When instructions say something like  "/path/to/VMware-server.rpm" they literally mean insert the path of where you saved the "VMware-server.rpm" from a previous step in the instructions.

And by your intro it is not clear to me that you found the wiki entry which describes how-to install this contrib. The wiki entry is at: http://wiki.contribs.org/Vmware

[CharlieBrady]

When instructions say something like  "/path/to/VMware-server.rpm" they literally mean insert the path of where you saved the "VMware-server.rpm" from a previous step in the instructions./Vmware

However, even in that case, it don't think it will be sufficient - I believe that you need "yum localinstall ...", not "yum install ...".

Note also that vmware-server 1.0 is no longer maintained by vmware.