vmware-player will not install due to unmet dependencies.

Bug #144251 reported by ouellettesr
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
vmware-player-kernel-2.6.15 (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: vmware-player-kernel-modules

apt-get install vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.15-23 and vmware-player
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  vmware-player: Depends: vmware-player-kernel-modules but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

apt-get install vmware-player-kernel-modules
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.

Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that
the package is simply not installable and a bug report against
that package should be filed.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
  vmware-player-kernel-modules: Depends: vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 but it is not installable
E: Broken packages

Revision history for this message
ouellettesr (koxxv) wrote :

sorry for posting this bug it has already been confirmed.

Revision history for this message
Michael Hall (mhall119) wrote :

I also just encountered this bug, is there something that needs to be done, or just a missing package?

Chris Bozic (cbozic)
Changed in vmware-player-kernel-2.6.15:
status: New → Confirmed
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