vmware not behaving

[Nikhil Fernandes]

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 20:24 +0200, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote:
> > 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
> 
> 	
I have the same problem.

Any idea on what the lead time is on a new modules package, or should I
compile them from source?

I installed the player today, and I never got to see it work :(

Nikhil