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Bodanel

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Registered: 2015-10-03

Posts: 8

[SOLVED] Cannot install VMware Workstation 12

Hi guys

long time Fedora user here, just switched to Arch.
All is good but I cannot manage to install Workstation 12 on my 64 bit Arch system. I followed the steps presented here

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/VM … stallation

but i still get this error

    exec 'from vmis.ui.null import *' in globals()
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/tmp/vmis.DndRel/install/vmware-installer/vmis/ui/null.py", line 13, in <module>
    from vmis.ui import console
  File "/tmp/vmis.DndRel/install/vmware-installer/vmis/ui/console.py", line 9, in <module>
    import curses
  File "/tmp/vmis.DndRel/install/vmware-installer/python/lib/curses/__init__.py", line 15, in <module>
    from _curses import *
ImportError: libncursesw.so.5: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

Any pointers ?

Last edited by Bodanel (2015-10-04 05:58:30)

karol

Archivist

Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot install VMware Workstation 12

Maybe you need https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/ncur … mpat-libs/ ?

Bodanel

Member

Registered: 2015-10-03

Posts: 8

Re: [SOLVED] Cannot install VMware Workstation 12

Thks karol, that solved it. I'll try to update the wiki later today if I can