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Need to know what version of Solaris you are running? Unsure about your OS Level or your processor speed on your Sun SPARC server? There are a few quick commands you can execute to determine this.

To determine your Solaris OS platform:


uname -a


This should return a description of the basic information currently available from the system.

SunOS mercury 5.10 Generic_118822-25 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-60

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Lots of people are having trouble installing VMWare Server on Ubuntu 8.04 (LTS). The primary reason is that VMWare Server was compiled using libraries that were replaced in 8.04.

If you are getting errors similar to below, just follow the simple steps after the jump.

/usr/lib/vmware-server/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware-server/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware-server/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware-server/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6)
/usr/lib/vmware-server/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib32/libcairo.so.2)
/usr/lib/vmware-server/bin/vmware-server-console: /usr/lib/vmware-server/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib32/libstdc++.so.6)

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