vmware on fedora 11

[lazerweb]

HI everyone! I am brand new to fedora and I love it. However I have installed vmware but I have no idea how to run it! I opened up the console and put in "vmware" and it says it does not exist. This must seem like such a niaeve question, but how do I actualy run it?

[vinaytp]

HI everyone! I am brand new to fedora and I love it. However I have installed vmware but I have no idea how to run it! I opened up the console and put in "vmware" and it says it does not exist. This must seem like such a niaeve question, but how do I actualy run it?

search for vmware executabel using :
whereis vmware

If vmware is installed the path of executable will be returned then use following command to start it
sudo /path/to/executable

Hope this helps

[lazerweb]

HI thanks for your reply. I did that and it came up with this:

/usr/share/man/man4/vmware.4.gz

I put in..
/usr/share/man/man4/vmware.4.gz

and it says command not found...The .gz worries me. sounds like its not unpacked, but I know its installed, cos when I go to try and reinstalled it it says its already installed...really appreciate your help

[lazerweb]

actually it says "permission denied" even tho I've done the su thing with password

[slashslash]

I did that and it came up with this:

/usr/share/man/man4/vmware.4.gz

I put in..
/usr/share/man/man4/vmware.4.gz

and it says command not found...The .gz worries me. sounds like its not unpacked, but I know its installed, cos when I go to try and reinstalled it it says its already installed...really appreciate your help

This /usr/share/man/man4/vmware.4.gz is not an installed program. It is a "manual page" to the vmware program. You will not be able to execute this file. If this program were installed correctly, the whereis command you gave would display results to both the executable program file and to the "manual page" for that program. For instance, if you give the command:
whereis firefox
you will likely get something such as:
firefox: /usr/bin/firefox /usr/share/man/man1/firefox.1.gz
The firefox file in /usr/bin is a binary, or executable file. This is the one that runs when you give the command firefox.

Perhaps you may want to reinstall the program in question. First remove it, then install it.

[lazerweb]

THanks so much for your help. I was using a GUI to install it and that was not working so I went into the console and did it that way and it worked! It was for version 6.5 and now I realise I dont have a serial for it lol!