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Install VMware workstation 14 on Slackware/Salix 14.2

Run the VMWare installer with following arguments:

sh VMware-Player-14.1.1-7528167.x86_64.bundle --console --ignore-errors

No patch is needed but one has to rebuild vmmon and vmnet modules:

vmmon module:

# cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
# tar xvf vmmon.tar
# cd vmmon-only
# make
# gzip vmmon.ko
# cp vmmon.ko.gz /lib/modules/4.9.35/kernel/drivers/misc/
# cd ..
# rm vmmon.o
# rm -rf vmmon-only

vmnet module (same as vmmon):

# cd /usr/lib/vmware/modules/source
# tar xvf vmnet.tar
# cd vmnet-only
# make
# gzip vmnet.ko
# cp vmnet.ko.gz /lib/modules/4.9.35/kernel/drivers/misc/
# cd ..
# rm vmnet.o
# rm -rf vmnet-only

Now load new modules:

# depmod -a

and try to start vmware service:

# /etc/init.d/vmware restart

If, after that, vmware still doesn’t start, take a look at logs at /tmp/vmware-/vmware-apploader-.log

If there is error as the end looking like this:

Unable to load libfontconfig.so.1

there is solution for that too:

# cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1
# mv libz.so.1 libz.so.1.old
# ln -s /usr/lib64/libz.so.1 .

After that everything should work fine.

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