If the prerequisite software is not installed, the installer stops and requests that you install it.

Installation of prerequisite software depends on the platform that you are using. See the Release Notes for the supported versions of each Linux platform.

Platform

Installation

RHEL 6.6 64-bit

Find the required modules on the installation DVD, or use yum to install them. 

yum install e2fsprogs-devel libuuid-devel
yum install glibc.i686
yum install perl-XML-LibXML

RHEL 7.1 64-bit

Find the required modules on the installation DVD, or use yum to install them. 

yum install e2fsprogs-devel libuuid-devel openssl-devel perl-devel
yum install glibc.i686 zlib.i686
yum install perl-XML-LibXML libncurses.so.5 perl-Crypt-SSLeay

SUSE Enterprise

Install the prerequisite packages from the SLES SDK DVD. When you insert the DVD, it offers to autorun. Cancel the autorun and use the yast package installer to install OpenSSL or other missing required packages.

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SLES 11 SP3 64-bit 

yast -i openssl-devel libuuid-devel libuuid-devel-32bit
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SLES 12 64-bit 

yast -i openssl-devel libuuid-devel libuuid-devel-32bit e2fsprogs-devel

Some users might be authorized to use the Novell Customer Center and use yast to retrieve missing packages from there.

Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit
1

Connect to the Internet.

2

Update the local repository of libraries from a terminal window. 

sudo apt-get update
3

Install the required libraries from a terminal window. 

sudo apt-get install ia32-libs build-essential gcc uuid uuid-dev perl libssl-dev perl-doc liburi-perl libxml-libxml-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl

For Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit, the resxtop and ESXCLI commands do not work if you do not install the 32-bit compatibility libraries.

Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit
1

Connect to the Internet.

2

Update the local repository of libraries from a terminal window. 

sudo apt-get update
3

Install the required libraries from a terminal window. 

sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 lib32bz2-1.0 gcc-multilib build-essential gcc uuid uuid-dev perl libssl-dev perl-doc liburi-perl libxml-libxml-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl

For Ubuntu 14.04 64-bit, the resxtop and ESXCLI commands do not work if you do not install the 32-bit compatibility libraries.

Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit
1

Connect to the Internet.

2

Update the local repository of libraries from a terminal window. 

sudo apt-get update
3

Install the required libraries from a terminal window. 

sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 build-essential uuid uuid-dev perl libssl-dev perl-doc libxml-libxml-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libsoap-lite-perl

For Ubuntu 15.10 64-bit, the resxtop and ESXCLI commands do not work if you do not install the 32-bit compatibility libraries.

Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit
1

Connect to the Internet.

2

Update the local repository of libraries from a terminal window. 

sudo apt-get update
3

Install the required libraries from a terminal window. 

sudo apt-get install lib32z1 lib32ncurses5 build-essential uuid uuid-dev libssl-dev perl-doc libxml-libxml-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libsoap-lite-perl libmodule-build-perl

For Ubuntu 16.04 64-bit, the resxtop and ESXCLI commands do not work if you do not install the 32-bit compatibility libraries.