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After I installed the lastest Ubuntu version, VMware didn't work. I just cliked and nothing. After I tried export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH vmware I got this error:

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Also, I tried sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic and it says everything's up to date and there's no update available.

And I tried sudo /etc/init.d/vmware start command and I got this:

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What's the problem?

 
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    Try running

    sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-generic

    then open your vmware & in 1st window and click Install, wait for about 7 mins & vmware will be open.

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    None of the other solutions here worked for me using Ubuntu 15.10 and vmware 12.1 pro, which was asking for gcc 4.9.2

    The problem was caused by ld path (dynamic libs), and I needed to fix vmware as follows:

    cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
tar xvf vmnet.tar
cd vmnet-only
make
cd ..
tar xvf vmmon.tar
cd vmmon-only
make
cd ..
mkdir /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc
cp vmmon.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/vmmon.ko
cp vmnet.o /lib/modules/`uname -r`/misc/vmnet.ko
depmod -a
/etc/init.d/vmware restart
nano /usr/bin/vmware

    add before set -e :

    export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/vmware/lib/libglibmm-2.4.so.1/:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH