Installing VMware Player 12 bundle on ubuntu 14.04

Question

I have downloaded VMware Workstation Player 12 but it came as a bundle. I've tried running it from the CLI but it keeps telling me to take a hike. How do I install this?

Solution

Using your CLI, change to the directory that the bundle is in:

cd <dirname>

Make the bundle executable

chmod +x VMware-Workstation-Full-12.0.1-3160714.x86_64.bundle

Execute the bundle

sudo sh ./VMware-Workstation-Full-12.0.1-3160714.x86_64.bundle

Now VMWare is installed, but there is a bug! Still in the terminal, enter

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH
vmware

VMWare should start. To make the change 'permanent', execute 'sudo nano /usr/bin/vmware' and add the line

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1

after the line export PRODUCT_NAME...

Press ctrl+o to save and ctrl+x to exit: VMWare will now work.

To perform the same function for VMPlayer, execute the same changes to /usr/bin/vmplayer

Comments

[Steve]

Of course, chmod to make it executable. I'm so new to this. Thanks.

[Charles Green]

Di Nada - you may not have had a problem with the weird export variable. I think this is primarily a problem with Ubuntu 15.10