{"id":766,"date":"2023-10-08T17:22:38","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T15:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=766"},"modified":"2023-10-08T17:26:12","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T15:26:12","slug":"unable-to-install-all-modules-see-log-temp-vmware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/?p=766","title":{"rendered":"Unable to install all modules. See log \/temp\/vmware-"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I fired up VMWare Player 17 on my Pop_OS! machine today and was prompted to update it. Problem is, the update failed with the below error:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/vmware.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-767\" src=\"http:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/vmware-300x119.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"119\" srcset=\"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/vmware-300x119.png 300w, https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/vmware.png 535w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With some google fu I found <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/blob\/master\/INSTALL\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this<\/a> github repo which helped me run the below commands and I was able to open VMWare player again:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>wget https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/archive\/workstation-17.0.2.tar.gz (replace 17.0.0 with your current version of VMWare Player<\/li>\n<li>tar -xzf workstation-17.0.2.tar.gz\u00a0 (again replace 17.0.2 with your version)<\/li>\n<li>cd vmware-host-modules-workstation-17.0.2\/<\/li>\n<li>make<\/li>\n<li>sudo make install<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I did have to reboot my PC after the above steps to start using VMWare Player again.<\/p>\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I fired up VMWare Player 17 on my Pop_OS! machine today and was prompted to update it. Problem is, the update failed with the below error: &nbsp; &nbsp; With some google fu I found this github repo which helped me run the below commands and I was able to open VMWare player again: wget https:\/\/github.com\/mkubecek\/vmware-host-modules\/archive\/workstation-17.0.2.tar.gz (replace 17.0.0 with your current version of VMWare Player tar -xzf workstation-17.0.2.tar.gz\u00a0 (again replace 17.0.2 with your version) cd vmware-host-modules-workstation-17.0.2\/ make sudo make install I did have to reboot my PC after the above steps to start using VMWare Player again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/766\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/exchangetimes.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}