Step 1: Before installing VMware Player on Mint/Ubuntu, first we need to update our system and install the required packages using the commands below:
Step 2: Once all the packages have been installed, we will move to a temporary directory and download VMware workstation using wget as shown in the command below:
Step 3: After downloading VMware player to our Linux Mint, we will run the below commands to install. Installation will run and we will see an output telling our installation was successful:
Step 4: Once installation is complete, the installer will add VMware Workstation icon to our system applications. Click on it to launch your VMware Workstation. This will open an interactive wizard to complete VMware workstation install/setup. Accept the license(s) agreement and click next until complete.
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sudo apt-get update
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sudo apt-get install -y wget gcc build-essential linux-headers-generic linux-headers-$(uname -r)Step 2: Once all the packages have been installed, we will move to a temporary directory and download VMware workstation using wget as shown in the command below:
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cd /tmp
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wget --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:75.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/75.0" https://www.vmware.com/go/getplayer-linuxStep 3: After downloading VMware player to our Linux Mint, we will run the below commands to install. Installation will run and we will see an output telling our installation was successful:
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chmod +x getplayer-linux
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sudo ./getplayer-linuxStep 4: Once installation is complete, the installer will add VMware Workstation icon to our system applications. Click on it to launch your VMware Workstation. This will open an interactive wizard to complete VMware workstation install/setup. Accept the license(s) agreement and click next until complete.