Open VMware Tools on Ubuntu 8.10

Hey,

I just finally installed the latest version of the Open Virtual Machine Tools (2008.12.23) on my Ubuntu 8.10 installation (2.6.27-9-generic) under VM Ware Fusion (2.0.1).

Primary based on this HOWTO (first hit i found on google).

Under the expectation you downloaded the source package and you are in the following folder

cd open-vm-tools-2008.12.23-137496

You need some (additional) libraries and packages:

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
sudo apt-get install libdumbnet-dev libdumbnet
sudo apt-get install libicu-dev

Cause I have no X development lib installed I run all with the following parameter

./configure --without-x && make

Afterwards I could install to tools:

sudo make install

We will see what is working now and what not..

Greetings and Happy New Year