After the installation of Vmware workstation, when I run apt-get install <PACKAGENAME> it would give me these errors:
Code:
root@debian:~# apt-get install <somethinghere>
The following NEW packages will be installed:
<somethinghere>
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 15 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B/1,248 kB of archives. After unpacking 6,966 kB will be used.
Selecting previously unselected package <somethinghere.
(Reading database ... 131007 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking <somethinghere> (from .../<somethinghere>.deb) ...
insserv: warning: script 'K01vmware' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'S50vmware-USBArbitrator' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'vmware-USBArbitrator' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: warning: script 'vmware' missing LSB tags and overrides
insserv: Starting vmware-USBArbitrator depends on rmnologin and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
After searching for a bit on the internet, I have found a fix for this. Here's a simple bash script for the effect
(Alternatively, you can download it here if you are lazy:
http://cur.lv/3cui)
Code:
#!/bin/bash
#Fix for vmware installation related errors
#Example: insserv: warning: script 'vmware' missing LSB tags and overrides
# insserv: Starting vmware-USBArbitrator depends on rmnologin and therefore on system facility `$all' which can not be true!
# Make sure only root can run this script
if [ "$(id -u)" != "0" ]; then
echo "This script must be run as root" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
#Fix vmware-USBArbitrator
echo -e "### BEGIN INIT INFO\n# Provides: vmware-USBArbitrator\n# Required-Start: \$remote_fs \$syslog vmware\n# Required-Stop: \$remote_fs \$syslog vmware\n# Default-Start: 2 3 5\n# Default-Stop: 2 3 5\n# Short-Description: Start daemon when vmware starts\n# Description: Enable service provided by daemon.\n### END INIT INFO" >> /etc/insserv/overrides/vmware-USBArbitrator
chmod 755 /etc/insserv/overrides/vmware-USBArbitrator
#Fix vmware (vmware VMX service)
echo -e "### BEGIN INIT INFO\n# Provides: vmware\n# Required-Start: \$remote_fs \$syslog\n# Required-Stop: \$remote_fs \$syslog\n# Default-Start: 2 3 5\n# Default-Stop: 2 3 5\n# Short-Description: VMware VMX service for virtual machines\n# Description: Allows running of VMware virtual machines. \n### END INIT INFO" >> /etc/insserv/overrides/vmware
chmod 755 /etc/insserv/overrides/vmware
