VMware player will not install on Dapper

[Nikhil Fernandes]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 16:51 -0500, Sean Malone wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> I previously had Vmware player running on my laptop with no problems.  Now I can't use it.  I've tried to re-install it and I get the following errors.  Can anyone tell me what this means?  Thanks.
> 
> Starting VMware services:
>    Virtual machine monitor                                             done
>    Virtual ethernet                                                    done
>    Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                                  failed
>    Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background)                    done
>    Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background)                    done
>    NAT service on /dev/vmnet8                                         failed
> invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed.
> dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure):
>  subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
> Setting up xserver-xorg-core (1.0.2-0ubuntu10.1) ...
> 
> Errors were encountered while processing:
>  vmware-player
> E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
> 
> 
> Sean
> 

See an earlier thread today - the vmware-player-kernel-modules package
for the latest kernel hasn't been released yet. I guess you could
download the source and recompile it yourself, or even install the
player from the official site. 

Nikhil