scot@master-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove vmware-player
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package vmware-player is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libssl0.9.7
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
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.
^[[ASetting up libssl0.9.7 (0.9.7k-3) ...

scot@master-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove vmware-server
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Package vmware-server is not installed, so not removed
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libssl0.9.7
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
scot@master-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get --purge remove vmware-tools-kernel-modules
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  libssl0.9.7
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  vmware-tools-kernel-modules*
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 53.2kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
(Reading database ... 105335 files and directories currently installed.)
Removing vmware-tools-kernel-modules ...
scot@master-desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install vmware-server vmware-tools-kernel-modules
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  vmware-server vmware-tools-kernel-modules
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/79.5MB of archives.
After unpacking 131MB of additional disk space will be used.
Preconfiguring packages ...
(Reading database ... 105333 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vmware-server (from .../vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb (--unpack):
 subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 1
Selecting previously deselected package vmware-tools-kernel-modules.
Unpacking vmware-tools-kernel-modules (from .../vmware-tools-kernel-modules_2.6.20.16.28.1_i386.deb) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 /var/cache/apt/archives/vmware-server_1.0.3-1_i386.deb
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)