Here's an English version of the installation error, for google: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install vmware-player Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done vmware-player is already the newest version. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used. Setting up vmware-player (1.0.2-2) ... Now configuring VMware Player. (This may take some time...) Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0.
Configuring a NAT network for vmnet8. Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)... The subnet 172.16.188.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused. The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf that this program was about to install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases that this program was about to install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases~ that this program was about to install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf that this program was about to install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1. Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)... The subnet 192.168.229.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused. The file /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf that this program was about to install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] The file /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases that this program was about to install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] The file /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases~ that this program was about to install already exists. Overwrite? [yes] Starting VMware services: Virtual machine monitor done Virtual ethernet done VMware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl. invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed. dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Errors were encountered while processing: vmware-player E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Package should not install over existing tar installation https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/47538 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is a direct subscriber. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs