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lordworm1996

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Registered: 2025-09-15

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[SOLVED] AUR Error 401 when Downloading VMWare Workstation 17

When I try to download the VMWare Workstation I get Error 401,

~
❯ paru -S vmware-workstation
:: Resolving dependencies...
:: There are 7 providers available for vmware-workstation:
:: Repository AUR:
    1) vmware-workstation  2) vmware-workstation-openrc  3) vmware-workstation11  4) vmware-workstation12  5) vmware-workstation14  6) vmware-workstation15  7) vmware-workstation16
Enter a number (default=1): 1
:: Calculating conflicts...
:: Calculating inner conflicts...

Aur (1) vmware-workstation-17.6.4-3

:: Proceed to review? [Y/n]: y

:: Downloading PKGBUILDs...
PKGBUILDs up to date
nothing new to review
fetching devel info...
==> Making package: vmware-workstation 17.6.4-3 (Mon 15 Sep 2025 10:53:33 AM CEST)
==> Retrieving sources...
  -> Found VMware-Workstation-17.6.4-24832109.x86_64.bundle
  -> Downloading vmware-tools-linux-12.4.0-23259341.x86_64.component.tar...
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
  0     0    0     0    0     0      0      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--     0
curl: (22) The requested URL returned error: 401
==> ERROR: Failure while downloading https://softwareupdate-prod.broadcom.co … ponent.tar
    Aborting...
error: failed to download sources for 'vmware-workstation-17.6.4-3':
error: packages failed to build: vmware-workstation-17.6.4-3

~ took 6s

From all the tutorials that I've seen on the Internet they all install it with the procedure I followed, but without this error

Last edited by lordworm1996 (2025-09-24 14:18:02)

WorMzy

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR Error 401 when Downloading VMWare Workstation 17

Please edit your post to use code tags.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Genera … s_and_code

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues.

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Whoracle

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR Error 401 when Downloading VMWare Workstation 17

The link to the package sources in the PKGBUILD seemingly doesn't exist, as can be evidenced by clicking on it and seeing if it downloads anything. Also already noted on the AUR page of the package: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/vmware-workstation

So, nothing to do than to wait for the maintainer to fix the thing, or maybe it's an intermittent issue that will go away in time.

lordworm1996

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Registered: 2025-09-15

Posts: 7

Re: [SOLVED] AUR Error 401 when Downloading VMWare Workstation 17

if anyone's still wondering the package updated and it works as intended

mikx4

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Registered: 2025-09-13

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR Error 401 when Downloading VMWare Workstation 17

No working for me on a fully updated system

$ makepkg
==> Making package: vmware-workstation 17.6.4-6 (Tue 14 Oct 2025 14:17:55 BST)
==> Checking runtime dependencies...
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> libxml2-legacy
  -> vmware-keymaps
==> Checking buildtime dependencies...
==> ERROR: Could not resolve all dependencies.

Both available from AUR repos and must be installed prior to makepkg.

Last edited by mikx4 (Today 13:33:09)

lordworm1996

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Registered: 2025-09-15

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR Error 401 when Downloading VMWare Workstation 17

If you read the error message it states that these two packages
==> Missing dependencies:
  -> libxml2-legacy
  -> vmware-keymaps

Need to be installed prior to installing vmware, if you install them and then install vmware you shouldn't face any issues, hope that helps

mikx4

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Registered: 2025-09-13

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Re: [SOLVED] AUR Error 401 when Downloading VMWare Workstation 17

Yeh did that, but reading here(even if it is for Manjaro), maybe makepkg -is or makepkg -s might have been enough.
https://forum.manjaro.org/t/root-tip-ho … jaro/57596

Also, after installation and reboot, networking was not setup. so I disabled the firewall(just in case) and did this from this post, and then enabled the firewall again, but have yet to reboot to see if networking stays setup.
sudo systemctl start vmware-networks-configuration.service
https://www.reddit.com/r/archlinux/comm … on_pro_16/

and then rebooted again, and I have vmnets and bridging now works.

I might try to convert my QEMU KVM VMs to VMWARE workstatin now because qemu KVM is so complicated, and trying to get 3D to work is just awful.
I can then get rid of QEMU KVm altogether.

I am trying CommodoreOS vision 3.0 in a VM, and it needs 3D.

Thank you.

Last edited by mikx4 (Today 15:03:56)