Install of ESXi 4.1 tools in 8.0?

[wizechatmgr]

I'm not really too familiar with the inner workings of UT in general, but have a good grasp on common concepts of networking, etc. I have installed the tools in ubuntu server via the command line previously but seem to be having a brainfart doing it in UT.

So here's the question/procedure I have so far.
1) Mount the guest tools cd by logging into terminal and doing a
"Mount /media/cdrom"
2) Copy the vmware tools.tar.gz file to a directory
3) tar xvf of same file to expand it to a directory and run its perl installer script.

Get an error requiring the gcc compiler.

*I am stumped at this point*
I am unable to grab the build-essentials using apt-get. Seems as if it refuses to grab from the respository. I am unsure if it is commented out or not in some config file.

The 8.0 upgrade of my 7.x machine bombed, so I reloaded from scratch instead of going the ovf route.

[WebFooL]

You can download a VMware version of UT form source forge.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/untangle/files/


Otherwise you need to edit the sources.list and download gcc and some other packets.

[wizechatmgr]

Yeah, thanks for the pointer to sources.list

I like doing things the hard way, it makes me learn

[sky-knight]

If that is the case...

1.) uncomment debian repositories in sources.list
2.) use apt to install the kernel headers, and the build-essential packages
3.) recomment the debian repositories
4.) extract and install the vm tools.

Now the real details are a bit more hairy than that, if you go looking in the how to section both Webfool and I have written separate tutorials that detail how to do this.