HOWTO Install VMWare Server on Ubuntu 8.04
April 27th, 2008Let’s not pretend I have some remarkably written tutorial here. I just smile and point…
In order to get VMWare Server set up on Ubuntu 8.04, do this and then do this. Simplify.
UPDATE: On a completely different, newly updated machine that had had a preexisting version of VMWare installed, applying the vmware-any-any-update-116.tgz patch worked, while the previous two solutions did not.

hello
thank you a lot for these links
the 2 ones didnt work for me but the any-any update did the job