VMware Player rephrase: "Unable to run depmod"

[Thomas Blasejewicz]

(2014/10/19 19:17), Colin Law wrote:
> On 19 October 2014 09:31, Thomas Blasejewicz <thomas at s7.dion.ne.jp> wrote:
>> Good evening
>>
>> After the successful installation of VMware Player I get the error:
>> "Unable to run depmod"
>> "See log /tmp/vmware-root/vmware-modconfig-xxxx.log" where "xxxx"
>> changes each time I try.
> Have you tried
> sudo apt-get install -f
> which has a go at fixing such problems.  It may well not help but it
> is the first thing I would try.
>
> Colin
Yes, I have tried that. No effect.
I also tried MANY other things like "apt-get update" / "apt-get upgrade"
sudo apt-get install linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic
using Synaptic install / reinstall "linux-image-3.13.0-37-generic" (this 
is package apparently causing problems)
...
just about EVERYTHING I could find
The error always remains the same.

I am already considering (again!!!) to reinstall the whole thing ...
But if you have to reinstall the entire system, loosing everything with 
it, EACH time one tries to install a piece of software
and then runs into all those errors ...
that precludes any chance of using Linux for work, doesn't it?