Today I’ve tried to install the vmware server on my laptop, where is running ubuntu 8.04 ( hardy heron). Everything went smoothly, except when I tried to run the Vmware server-console, the system returned the following error:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0′ not found (required by /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6)

A quick and dirty workaround is to comment out the line 246 on the file /usr/lib/vmware/lib/wrapper-gtk24.sh

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It is always a good idea to encrypt your sensitive data and files, so no one can read and access them without your password or other authentication methods. Financial, medical and other personal files are stored on people’s computers carelessly without regard to privacy and consequent risk of leakage, theft or loss. There’s many software applications that can encrypt files and folders, but my choice goes to truecrypt, an open-source and multi-platform application that uses strong, tried and tested algorithms.

Truecryp features:

* Creates a virtual encrypted disk within a file and mounts it as real disk drive. Encrypts an entire hard disk partition or a device, such as USB flash drive or other storage devices ipod,PDA,etc).
*Ciphers supported are AES, Serpent and Twofish. It also allows different combinations of cascaded ciphers (ie AES+Twofish, Serpent+AES, or AES+Twofish+Serpent)
*Supported by Linux, Mac OS X and Windows.

I’ve been using truecrypt for a long time from the command line, But a few weeks ago version 5.0a was released with a great gui for Linux. I’ve dreamed so many times for this day, a real gui that allows you to create virtual encrypted disks and mount them ( xubuntu 7.10 gusty gibbons ) the new version of truecrypt; to begin you can start with going on the truecrypt web site and browse in the download area. You will find the Linux version ubuntu (x86); just download it and decompress, then go in the truecrypt_5.0a directory which is located the .deb package.


type: sudo dpkg -i truecrypt_5.0a-0_i386.deb [sudo] password for
crypto: Selecting previously deselected package truecrypt. (Reading
database … 125274 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking truecrypt (from truecrypt_5.0a-0_i386.deb) … Setting up
truecrypt (5.0a-0) …


at this point truecrypt is installed in the system. from the terminal; just type “truecrypt” and the gui will appear.

Happy encryption.