vmware not behaving

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz]

> i have been adding package with synaptic that have nothing to do with
> vmware player & every time it wants me to configure it. at the end it
> gives this error:
> 
> E: vmware-player: subprocess post-installation script returned error
> exit status 1
> 
> & there was something about vmnet
> 
Actually, I ran on the same problem with a new install of vmware-player, 
the problem is that the vmware kernel modules package hasn't been 
rebuilt with the new kernel update.
What I propose, is that you run :

sudo apt-get remove vmware-player-kernel-modules
(it might uninstall all the dependencies)

sudo dpkg --purge vmware-player
  (It might yell about a non empty dir that it can suppress )

sudo rm -rf <path to the dir>
(you may verify that there is only vmware concerned about that dir )

apt-get install build-essential
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
wget 
http://download3.vmware.com/software/vmplayer/VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.tar.gz
tar xzvf VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.tar.gz
cd vmware-player-distrib
sudo ./vmware-install.pl

Then it done. But when the new kernel update happens you'll have to run :
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
sudo vmware-config.pl

	

	
		
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