/posts/ 2016/vmware-cli-on-debian-8
In an attempt to try and improve monitoring on my ESX system, i’ve started to poke around with a few Munin plugins which look interesting. The biggest roadblock was the requirement to have the VMware vSphere CLI installed. Unfortunately its doesn’t seem to be a simple task of install and forget, as like most commercial software companies they’re yet to sign up to the RPM/dpkg route for distributing their software.
Thankfully, after a while Googling and a few experimentations i’ve found the following magic bullet:
# apt-get install libxml-libxml-perl perl-doc libssl-dev e2fsprogs libarchive-zip-perl libcrypt-ssleay-perl libclass-methodmaker-perl libdata-dump-perl libsoap-lite-perl libdatetime-format-iso8601-perl
# echo "ubuntu" > /etc/tmp-release
# export httpproxy=
# export ftp_proxy=
This works for Debian 8 (Jessie), and it’s been reported that it works for Debian 7 as well.
Ps. VMware, no, /usr/bin isn’t a sane default for installing your software into!