matt@matts-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get remove vmware-player
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED
  vmware-player
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 1 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 32.1MB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? 
(Reading database ... 114386 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing vmware-player ...
Stopping VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                             done
   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                                   done
   DHCP server on /dev/vmnet1                                          done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1                                 done
   DHCP server on /dev/vmnet8                                          done
   NAT service on /dev/vmnet8                                          done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8                                 done
   Virtual ethernet                                                   failed
invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "stop" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--remove):
 subprocess pre-removal script returned error exit status 1
Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor                                             done
   Virtual ethernet                                                    done
   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0                                   done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background)                    done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background)                    done
   NAT service on /dev/vmnet8                                          done
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-player
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)