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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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Have you messed up or somehow deleted your service console on your VMWare server? Have you moved your ESX server to a new VLAN, subnet, or facility? How do you get your ESX server to respond via the Service Console if the IP addresses don’t match? The answer is esxcfg-vswif.

esxcfg-vswif - This is the tool to manage your Ethernet interfaces for the Service Console. Forget what you used in previous versions of ESX Server, the “eth” prefix is history.

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