Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libssl0.9.7 vmware-player-kernel-modules vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.17-10 The following NEW packages will be installed: libssl0.9.7 vmware-player vmware-player-kernel-modules vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.17-10 0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/14.3MB of archives. After unpacking 37.8MB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Y Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.17-10. (Reading database ... 153089 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.17-10 (from .../vmware-player-kernel- modules-2.6.17-10_2.6.17.6-1_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player-kernel-modules. Unpacking vmware-player-kernel-modules (from .../vmware-player-kernel-modules_2. 6.17.10_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package libssl0.9.7. Unpacking libssl0.9.7 (from .../libssl0.9.7_0.9.7k-3_i386.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player. Unpacking vmware-player (from .../vmware-player_1.0.2-2_i386.deb) ... vmware-player-v1-0-2 license has already been accepted Setting up vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.17-10 (2.6.17.6-1) ... Setting up vmware-player-kernel-modules (2.6.17.10) ... Setting up libssl0.9.7 (0.9.7k-3) ... 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 192.168.159.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused. Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1. Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)... The subnet 172.16.10.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused. 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)