Bug 146753

Summary:	vmware-player should depend on vmware-modules, or something is wrong with my setup
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Jorge Vargas <jorge.vargas>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Severity:	normal
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Jorge Vargas 2006-09-07 14:23:38 UTC

I ran

emerge vmware-player 

after that /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl

got a couple of errors. 

 * Starting VMware services:                                              [ ok ]
 *   Virtual machine monitor                                              [ !! ]
 *   Virtual ethernet                                                     [ !! ]
 *   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                                    [ !! ]
 *   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background)                     [ ok ]
 *   NAT service on /dev/vmnet8                                           [ !! ]

localhost ~ # /etc/init.d/vmware start
 * Vmware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
 * for the running kernel.
 * Please ensure that the modules have been compiled for this kernel:
 * emerge --oneshot vmware-modules
 * Also ensure Vmware Player has been configured:
 * /opt/vmware/player/bin/vmware-config.pl
 * VMware is not properly configured! See above.                          [ !! ]

Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2006-09-07 14:29:33 UTC

It already depends on it. You need to re-emerge vmware-modules after kernel upgrade.

Comment 2 Jorge Vargas 2006-09-07 14:36:39 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> It already depends on it. You need to re-emerge vmware-modules after kernel
> upgrade.
> 

this is the first time I install it and it didn't pull in the dep for app-emulation/vmware-modules.

I went into the ebuild file and didn't saw it but now I grep it and saw there is a ~ in front of it, what does that means?