Installing VMware Server Console in Hardy Heron 8.04

Here are the steps I followed while trying to install VMware Server Console on Hardy:

• Install some prerequisitives: sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` xinetd
• Download the VMware Server Linux client package, which is a zip that contains the following components components:
  - Linux VMware Server Console (.tar and .rpm)
  - Perl scripting API for Linux (.tar)
  - Programming API (.tar)
• Unzip the downloaded file.
• Extract the file VMware-server-console-1.0.4-56528.tar.gz.
• Enter the directory it was extracted into and run sudo ./vmware-install.pl
• The installer will ask some questions. Choose the default answer on all of them.
• Running vmware-server-console will fail with the following error messages:

  /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
  /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
  /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
  /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
  /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
  /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)
  /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
  /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
  /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

• Create the following links:

  sudo ln -sf /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1
  sudo ln -sf  /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 /usr/lib/vmware-server-console/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0