Install Linux Mandriva VMware Server

Copy/past in the quick Search Engine : (Download VMware server rmp) and click on the first link.

On the next page, log in with your existing VMware account or create a new one:

Follow the on-screen instructions. At the end, you should receive an email with a link to your download page. On the download page, you should see two license numbers, one for Windows and one for Linux. Write down or save the one for Linux and scroll down.

Then download the VMware Server for Linux TAR image (not the RPM image!) to your desktop (e.g. to /home/falko/Desktop):

Open a terminal (Applications > Tools > Terminal) and become root:

su

Then go to the location where you saved the VMware Server .tar.gz file, e.g. /home/falko/Desktop (replace falko with your own username!):

cd /home/falko/Desktop

Unpack the VMware Server .tar.gz file and run the installer:

tar xvfz VMware-server-*.tar.gz
cd vmware-server-distrib
./vmware-install.pl

The installer will ask you a lot of questions. You can always accept the default values simply by hitting .

If you see the following question, answer with yes:

Your kernel was built with "gcc" version "4.3.1", while you are trying to use
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.3.2". This configuration is not recommended and
VMware Server may crash if you'll continue. Please try to use exactly same
compiler as one used for building your kernel. Do you want to go with compiler
"/usr/bin/gcc" version "4.3.2" anyway? [no] <-- yes

When the installer asks you

In which directory do you want to keep your virtual machine files?
[/var/lib/vmware/Virtual Machines]

you can either accept the default value or specify a location that has enough free space to store your virtual machines.

At the end of the installation, you will be asked to enter a serial number:

Please enter your 20-character serial number.

Type XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX or 'Enter' to cancel:

Fill in your serial number for VMware Server.

After the successful installation, you can delete the VMware Server download file and the installation directory:

cd /home/falko/Desktop
rm -f VMware-server*
rm -fr vmware-server-distrib/

VMware Server 2 does not have a desktop application for managing virtual machines - this is now done through a browser (e.g. Firefox). You can access the management interface over HTTPS (https://:8333) or HTTP (http://:8222); the management interface can be accessed locally and also remotely. If you want to access it from the same machine, type https://127.0.0.1:8333 or http://127.0.0.1:8222 into the browser's address bar.

If you're using Firefox 3 and use HTTPS, Firefox will complain about the self-signed certificate, therefore you must tell Firefox to accept the certificate - to do this, click on the Or you can add an exception... link:

Click on Add Exception...:

The Add Security Exception window opens. In that window, click on the Get Certificate button first and then on the Confirm Security Exception button:

Afterwards, you will see the VMware Server login form. Type in root and your root password:

This is how the VMware Server web interface looks. The structure is similar to the old VMware Server 1 desktop application, so the usage of the web interface is pretty straightforward.

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Install Linux Mandriva Skype

Copy/past in the quick search Engine : (Download Skype Rpm) and click on the first link.

Choose Mandriva and install it exactly as shown for the TrueType fonts in chapter 11:

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Install Linux Mandriva Adobe Reader

Copy/Past in the quick search Engine : ( Download AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i486.rpm) and click in the first link.

Then click on Continue:

Select Adobe Reader 8.1.2 (or whatever the latest version is) and click on the Download Adobe Reader button:

For some reason I got an error when I selected Open with Software Installer (default) in the Firefox download dialogue. To circumvent the problem, I save the file on the hard drive (e.g. on the desktop -> /home/falko/Desktop)...

... and open a terminal (Applications > Tools > Terminal):

Type

su

to become root and go to the directory where you've saved the Adobe rpm (e.g. /home/falko/Desktop):

cd /home/falko/Desktop/

You can type

ls -l

to find out the exact name of the Adobe rpm. Afterwards, you can install it like this:

rpm -ivh AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i486.rpm

After the installation we can delete the Adobe rpm:

rm -f AdobeReader_enu-8.1.2_SU1-1.i486.rpm

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Install Linux Mandriva RealPlayer

Copy past in the quick search Engine : ( Download RealPlayer 11 Gold RPM package) and click on the first link.

Linux Mandriva TrueType Fonts

First you have to copy/paste in the Quick search Engine : ( Download msttcorefonts rpm ) and click on the first link.

Select Open with Software Installer (default) in the Firefox download dialogue:

In the window RPM Installation, select Install:

Type in your root password:

If the package has some dependencies, install them as well:

The additional packages are now being downloaded and installed:

It is possible that the package has an unknown signature. Continue by clicking on Yes:

The RPM Installation window closes automatically after the installation has finished.

To check if the TrueType fonts have been installed correctly, open a word processor like OpenOffice. You should now find your new Windows fonts there:

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Linux Mandriva second Inventory

Now let's check again what we have so far by browsing the menus again (if you find that some applications are missing although you know that you've installed them, just log out of your current desktop session and log back in - the applications should then be listed in the menus):

Our inventory should now look like this:

Graphics:
[x] The GIMP
[x] F-Spot
[ ] Picasa

Internet:
[x] Firefox
[x] Opera
[x] Flash Player
[x] FileZilla
[x] Thunderbird
[x] Evolution
[x] aMule
[x] Bittorrent
[x] Vuze/Azureus
[x] Pidgin
[ ] Skype
[x] Google Earth
[x] Xchat IRC

Office:
[x] OpenOffice Writer
[x] OpenOffice Calc
[ ] Adobe Reader
[x] GnuCash
[x] Scribus

Sound & Video:
[x] Amarok
[x] Audacity
[x] Banshee
[x] MPlayer
[x] Rhythmbox Music Player
[x] gtkPod
[x] XMMS
[x] dvd::rip
[x] Kino
[x] Sound Juicer CD Extractor
[x] VLC Media Player
[ ] Real Player
[x] Totem
[x] Xine
[x] Brasero
[x] K3B
[x] Multimedia-Codecs

Programming:
[x] KompoZer (Nvu)
[x] Bluefish
[x] Quanta Plus

Other:
[ ] VMware Server
[ ] True Type fonts
[x] Java
[x] NTFS Read-/Write Support

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Linux Mandriva Installing Additional Software

Now that we have added additional repositories, a lot more packages are available in our package manager for installation, especially a big deal of our needed packages. To install them, go to Applications > Install & Remove Software:

The Software Management window opens. Please make sure that you select All in the two drop-down menus on the left to make sure that you can select from all packages that are available:

Browse the applications on the left (or even better, use the search field) and mark the following packages for installation (* is a wildcard; e.g. amarok* means all packages that start with amarok):

• opera
• filezilla
• mozilla-thunderbird
• amule
• bittorrent-gui
• vuze
• googleearth
• xchat
• gnucash
• scribus
• amarok*
• audacity
• banshee*
• mplayer*
• mplayerplugin
• gtkpod
• xmms*
• vlc*
• mozilla-plugin-vlc
• xine-*
• libdvdcss2
• win32-codecs
• real-codecs
• kompozer
• bluefish
• kdewebdev*
• dvdrip
• java-1.6.0-sun*
• cabextract (needed by msttcorefonts)
• kernel-source (needed by VMware Server)
• kernel-desktop586-devel (needed by VMware Server)
• xinetd (needed by VMware Server)
• perl-devel (needed by VMware Server)
• k3b
• gcc
• gcc-c++

Make sure you select the kernel-source and kernel-desktop586-devel packages that suit your installed kernel.

Also, sometimes there are multiple packages with the same name available. Select the package with the highest version string (this is not valid for the kernel-source and kernel-desktop586-devel packages - they must match your installed kernel!). It is also possible that the same package is available from mdv and plf. It shouldn't matter which one you pick in such a case.

If a package has a dependency, a window will pop up. Accept the dependencies by clicking on Ok:

After you've selected the required packages, click on Apply. A new window will open with all packages that are going to be installed. Confirm by clicking on Yes:

The packages are now being downloaded and installed:

Click on Ok if you see this message at the end of the installation:

After the installation, click on Quit to leave the Software Management window.

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Linux Mandriva Find Out Kernel Version

Before we go on and install additional software, it's a good idea to find out about your kernel version because in chapter 9 we will install the packages kernel-source and kernel-desktop586-devel which are needed by VMware Server (which we will install at the end of this tutorial). There might be multiple kernel-source and kernel-desktop586-devel packages available, and to select the right ones you need to know your kernel version.

To find out about your kernel version, open a terminal (Applications > Tools > Terminal )...

... and run

uname -r

The output should look like this:

[falko@localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb
[falko@localhost ~]$

which means you have kernel 2.6.27-desktop586-0.rc8.2mnb installed.

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Linux Mandriva Manage Online Repositories

o manage your online repositories, open the Mandriva Control Center by clicking on its icon in the taskbar:

Type in the root password:

Select Software Management > Configure media sources for install and update:

You can now see which repositories are enabled on your system. If you see the same repository more than once in this list, you can disable one of them by unchecking it (but you don't have to - it doesn't hurt to have the same repository more than once in this list):

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Linux Mandriva UPDATE SYSTEM

If the red software updates icon appears in the upper right corner (it shows the message New updates are available for your system when you move your mouse pointer to it), it's time to update the system. Click on the red icon:

Type in your password:

Select which updates you want to install. Click on Update to do so:

Confirm your selection:

The updates are now being downloaded and installed:

Click on Quit afterwards to leave the Software Management window.

It is possible that new updates show up after the first update. If this is the case, update again.

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Add Online Software Repositories

this step we will add some online repositories that contain all packages from our CD plus updated packages plus additional packages that are not on the CD.

Visit http://easyurpmi.zarb.org/ in your browser. The site should automatically detect your Mandriva version and your architecture.

Scroll down. You should see the buttons Add Official medias and Add PLF medias. Click on Add Official medias. In the Firefox download dialogue, select Open with Add urpmi media (default):

Type in the root password:

Answer the question Is it ok to continue? with Yes:

The package database is now being updated:

Click on Ok afterwards:

Now do the same again for the PLF repositories (Add PLF medias).

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Linux Mandriva Inventory

Now let's browse all menus to see which of our needed applications are already installed (of course, the Flash plugin isn't listed in the menus because it's a browser plugin - that's why we checked for its existence in the previous chapter).

You should find the following situation ([x] marks an application that is already installed, where [ ] is an application that is missing):

Graphics:
[x] The GIMP
[x] F-Spot
[ ] Picasa

Internet:
[x] Firefox
[ ] Opera
[x] Flash Player
[ ] FileZilla
[ ] Thunderbird
[x] Evolution
[ ] aMule
[ ] Bittorrent
[ ] Vuze/Azureus
[x] Pidgin
[ ] Skype
[ ] Google Earth
[ ] Xchat IRC

Office:
[x] OpenOffice Writer
[x] OpenOffice Calc
[ ] Adobe Reader
[ ] GnuCash
[ ] Scribus

Sound & Video:
[ ] Amarok
[ ] Audacity
[ ] Banshee
[ ] MPlayer
[x] Rhythmbox Music Player
[ ] gtkPod
[ ] XMMS
[ ] dvd::rip
[x] Kino
[x] Sound Juicer CD Extractor
[ ] VLC Media Player
[ ] Real Player
[x] Totem
[ ] Xine
[x] Brasero
[ ] K3B
[ ] Multimedia-Codecs

Programming:
[ ] KompoZer (Nvu)
[ ] Bluefish
[ ] Quanta Plus

Other:
[ ] VMware Server
[ ] True Type fonts
[ ] Java
[x] NTFS Read-/Write Support

So some applications are already on the system. NTFS read-/write support is enabled by default on Mandriva 2009.0.

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Linux Mandriva Flash Player

Mandriva One 2009 installs the Macromedia Flash Player by default. To see if the Flash plugin is working, start Firefox. Then type about:plugins in the address bar. Firefox will then list all installed plugins, and it should list the Flash Player (version 9.0r124) among them:

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