GTK error in VMware Player for 12.04 LTS

Question

Installing VMware Player for 64-bit Ubuntu 12.04 LTS:

https://www.vmware.com/go/downloadplayer

I get these errors:

$ sudo sh VMware-Player-6.0.0-1295980.x86_64.bundle
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
(vmware-installer.py:8805): Gtk-WARNING **:
Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "murrine"
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module":
libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file:
No such file or directory

I have tried:

sudo apt-get install --reinstall gtk2-engines
sudo apt-get install gtk-murrine-engine
sudo apt-get install gtk2-murrine-engine
sudo apt-get install gtk2-murrine-engine:i386

Has anyone fixed this?

Solution 1

The libcanberra errors seems to be resolvable using a symbolic link as follows:

sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/modules/libcanberra-gtk-module.so /usr/lib/libcanberra-gtk-module.so

Also, you'll need the build-essential, open-vm-tools and open-vm-toolbox packages, install them using:

 sudo apt-get install build-essential open-vm-tools open-vm-toolbox

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Solution 2

Install libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a solved my problem. I am running 12.04.4.