error installing vmware-player (fixed)

[Carl Karsten]

It looks like the problem was having universe/multiverse enabled, but not for 
security updates, so things got lopsided.  below is the journey to success. 
everytime it ran the install script, I just kept hitting enter to accept the 
defaults.

Carl K



carl at amd15:~/temp$ apt-cache policy vmware-player-kernel-modules | grep Installed
   Installed: 2.6.15.10-6
carl at amd15:~/temp$ vm
vmnet-bridge              vmnet-sniffer             vmware-config-network.pl
vmnet-dhcpd               vmplayer                  vmware-ping
vmnet-natd                vmstat
vmnet-netifup             vm-support
carl at amd15:~/temp$ vmplayer
/usr/lib/vmware-player/bin/vmplayer: 
/usr/lib/vmware-player/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information 
available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)

(05:17:49 PM) LjL: CarlFK: and, if it's -25, do you have "multiverse" enabled 
for "dapper-security"?

(05:19:50 PM) LjL: CarlFK: try that, but i'm not sure it'll work, because it'll 
possibly still insist in trying to finish the vmware-player install first. 
basically the problem is that Ubuntu Security has released a new kernel (-25), 
and you've got that, and also new vmware modules to match that kernel -- but you 
haven't got those

carl at amd15:~/temp$ sudo apt-get upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
   vmware-player-kernel-modules
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
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Setting up vmware-player (1.0.1-4) ...

(05:25:44 PM) LjL: CarlFK: gee, why is it keeping them back. try "sudo apt-get 
install vmware-player-kernel-modules"

carl at amd15:~/temp$ sudo apt-get install vmware-player-kernel-modules
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
   vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.15-25
Recommended packages:
   linux-image-2.6.15-25-386 linux-image-2.6.15-25-686
The following NEW packages will be installed:
   vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.15-25
The following packages will be upgraded:
   vmware-player-kernel-modules
1 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 172kB of archives.
After unpacking 479kB of additional disk space will be used.