Ubuntu 64-bit Full install on VMware-fusion on Mac-OSX Leopard

1) Obtain a 64bit Ubuntu iso file from the ubuntu site. Make sure you get the 64 bit Desktop version for "64bit AMD and Intel computers". The iso image is called ubuntu-8.04.1.amd64.iso. The x86-64 platform for 64 bit computing is called AMD64 or Intel -64 , and it will work on all x86 -64 cpus

2) Install the iso from the VMware fusion site

3) Install build essentials like gcc gfortran etc  sudo apt-get install build-essential

4) Now to get things like copy and paste from hopst-leopard OS to guest-Vmware-ubuntu OS to play well, you need to install VMware tools. As noted here , the menu item Virtual Machine-Install VMware tools does not work so follow these instructions:

• sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev
• sudo apt-get install libproc-dev libdumbnet-dev xorg-dev
•  Download from SourceForge OpenVMtools 
•  Untar  tar -zxvf open-vm-tools-2008.08.08-109361.tar.gz
• Run ./configure in the open-vm-tools directory that came into being after the untar

If the configure informs you of missing packages . Please install them . For eg"configure: error: uriparser library not found or is too old. Please configure without Unity (using --disable-unity) or install the liburiparser devel package."

sudo apt-get install