On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 11:09:58PM +0000, stephen at smithstone.co.uk enlightened us: > Was wondering if anyone can help with this, im trying to > install vmware-server on a 64 bit centos 4.2 machine and > then install is saying it can't find the libX11.so.6 lib and > more > yum install xorg-x11-libs.i386 > howver i have the 64bit versions of these filesand im unable > to install the i386 for arch reasons im sure off, just > wondering see above > if anyone had come across acure for this is it just a case > that the vmware product needs to be compiled against 64bit > libs and not 32 bit libs > VMWare doesn't provide 64-bit binaries. The 64-bit OS will run the 32-bit binaries just fine, but you must have the 32-bit libraries as well. There's absolutely nothing wrong with having 32-bit libraries installed alongside the 64-bit libraries (other than it's annoying). Matt -- Matt Hyclak Department of Mathematics Department of Social Work Ohio University (740) 593-1263