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VMware setup error (libpopt)
By jeltsch on Mon, 05/21/2007 - 21:32
The error message during VMware setup (vmware-config.pl) is due to the fact that Suse 9 has a too new package for the requested library:
/usr/bin/vmware-smbpasswd.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libpopt.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
The following fixes the problem:
ln -s /usr/lib/libpopt.so.1 /usr/lib/libpopt.so.0