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jajacool

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Registered: 2014-08-20

Posts: 10

Installing VMware Player GTK errors and such:

I'm running Cinnamon and from what I can see VMware looks like it relies heavily on gnome being the DE, but I could be wrong. I'm not sure what the mutex is and what's below.
Here's the out put:

john Downloads$> ./VMware-Player-6.0.4-2249910.x86_64.bundle 
Extracting VMware Installer...done.

(vmware-installer.py:2363): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

(vmware-installer.py:2363): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1163: error: unexpected identifier 'direction', expected character '}'
Attempt to unlock mutex that was not locked
/tmp/vmis.HEUNTs/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer: line 56:  2363 Aborted                 (core dumped) VMWARE_INSTALLER="$VMWARE_INSTALLER" VMISPYVERSION="$VMISPYVERSION" "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmis-launcher "$VMWARE_INSTALLER"/vmware-installer.py "$@"
john Downloads$> 

tourist

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Registered: 2014-04-15

Posts: 6

Re: Installing VMware Player GTK errors and such:

No idea how to fix those gtk+ related problems, but for the vmware player, you can avoid its gtk+ frontend by:
#./VMware-Player-6.0.4-2249910.x86_64.bundle --console

jajacool

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Registered: 2014-08-20

Posts: 10

Re: Installing VMware Player GTK errors and such:

#./VMware-Player-6.0.4-2249910.x86_64.bundle --console
Sorry for the late reply but it took me awhile to try this. It works perfectly without the gtk+ frontend.