(As before, you should use the name of the file you downloaded, and tab completion can help. You have to run it as root, so use sudo: sudo. Sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic If it doesn't end in -generic, replace -generic below with whatever it does end in. On old versions of Ubuntu, generic-pae, server, and virtual were common too. These days, the output usually ends in -generic. The installer may need to build and install kernel modules, so it's advisable to make sure you have the necessary packages to facilitate this. (Tab completion is handy for this: if you type the first few characters of the filename and press Tab, your shell should expand it automatically to the whole filename if it's the only file in the current directory that starts that way.) The naming convention might change in the future, but even if it does not, the filename contains version numbers, so each version of VMware Player has a different filename. Use the full name of whatever file you download. Currently, VMware Workstation 15.1.0 Player Build 13591040 is the latest version. Now make this installer file executable with the chmod command. (In the Terminal, the ~ character at the beginning of a file path represents your home folder.) For example, if you put it in your Downloads folder, run: cd ~/Downloads Note that VMware Player (like VMware Workstation) no longer has a 32-bit version, so if running uname -m shows x86_64, you can run it, but if it shows i686, you can't (or would have to use an old version).Īfter the download completes, go to the folder to which you downloaded it in the Terminal. Since VMware Player is not provided by the repositories, you have to instead download it here at the VMware website.
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