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Install VMWare Player 15.5 for Ubuntu 18.04 and BakcBox Linux
## Install VMWare Player 15.5 for Ubuntu 18.04 and BakcBox Linux
I don't know if VMWare is messing with Linux users or they just don't care, installing VMWare player was not pleasure at all.
You need hackish brain to make it working with Remove Console who is kind of dependency for VMWare WebSphere and
advanced users of VMWare products. Anyway ..
## Step by step
Install older version of VMWare Player 12.5.9
sudo ./VMware-Player-12.5.9-7535481.x86_64.bundle
Direct download URL: https://www.4shared.com/s/fr0X5PIzRda
Then install VMWare Remote Console
sudo vmware-installer -i VMware-Remote-Console-10.0.6-14247266.x86_64.bundle --console --eulas-agree
Direct download URL: https://www.4shared.com/s/fAIQQXQvTfi
Then, and only then, you can install install VMWare 15.5
sudo ./VMware-Player-15.5.0-14665864.x86_64.bundle
Direct download URL https://www.4shared.com/s/foNmRu0fgee
## Info about this solution
Short story is: VMWare Player 15.5 comes with vmware-installer --version 3.0.0, and VMWare Remote Console need
vmware-installer --version 2.1.0, shipped with VMWare 12.5.9, guess they forget to update Remote Console
to support both versions, detect and switch to one VMWare version 15.5 is using.
## ERROR YOU WILL SEE IF YOU TRY TO INSTALL REMOTE CONSOLE WITHOUT THIS PROCEDURE
Component vmware-usbarbitrator 17.3.0 has unsatisfied dependency:
vmware-installer=2.1.0
## P.S. This tutorial for everybody with same issue, because in the time of writing this "tutorial" nobody else proposed solution for Ubuntu/Debian users
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