vmware builds and installs correctly BUT vmware-wizard looks for tcl 8.0 and gentoo installs tcl 8.3.3 so vmware-wizard errors with static@LNX static $ /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-wizard Application initialization failed: Can't find a usable init.tcl in the following directories: /usr/local/src/scriptics/TclPro1.2/lib/tcl8.0 /opt/vmware/lib/tcl8.0 /opt/lib/tcl8.0 /opt/vmware/library /opt/library /opt/tcl8.0/library /tcl8.0/library This probably means that Tcl wasn't installed properly.
I have dev-lang/tcl-8.3.3 installed and vmware-wizard works for me. Also as best as I can tell vmware-wizard doens't use tcl at all: # ldd /opt/vmware/bin/vmware-wizard libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4002d000) libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x400f5000) libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x400f8000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4011a000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x40000000)
William, I also had this problem. Maybe try doing a fresh install and see what happens?
Hrm, I think I was using the newest vmware when I wrote comment 1. I'll go back a version and check it out.
Ok, I'll admit that wmare-wizard use tcl. If you run `strings vmware-wizard` you'll see some tcl stuff. I'll fix the relevant DEPEND lines. That said, I have the problem of "it works for me" which makes it real hard to fix your problem, any chance you can be descriptive about when you ran vmware-wizard? Was it before you ran vmware-config? Were the kernel modules loaded? Anything else that may be relevent?
I ran vmware config allready and the modules were all loaded the thing is is that vmware-config is lookin for tcl 8.0 and gentoo has 8.3.3 "I think thats the problem" vmware itself runs fine just the wizard does not because of the tcl issue
also if you talk on op my nick is [static] if you want to talk more about it
After talking to Danny on IRC and banging my head on the desk alot Danny said the problem went away after he upgraded to VMware 3.1 . So I'm going hold off on worrying anymore about this until after the 3.1 package is made live and ppl have problems with it. See bug #1686 if you can't wait for the final 3.1 ebuild.
Sorry, I need sleep, I got the Bug depends on and bug blocks confused.