Comment 2 for bug 115276

I can confirm this bug in Kubuntu Feisty (except for the "ALSA lib" part)
Output of "sudo apt-get install vmware-player"
sudo apt-get install vmware-player
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  vmware-player-kernel-modules vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15
The following NEW packages will be installed
  vmware-player vmware-player-kernel-modules vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0B/13.6MB of archives.
After unpacking 36.5MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
Preconfiguring packages ...
Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15.
(Reading database ... 128052 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 (from .../vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15_2.6.20.5-15.20_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player-kernel-modules.
Unpacking vmware-player-kernel-modules (from .../vmware-player-kernel-modules_2.6.20.15.14_i386.deb) ...
Selecting previously deselected package vmware-player.
Unpacking vmware-player (from .../vmware-player_1.0.2-2_i386.deb) ...
Setting up vmware-player-kernel-modules-2.6.20-15 (2.6.20.5-15.20) ...

Setting up vmware-player-kernel-modules (2.6.20.15.14) ...
Setting up vmware-player (1.0.2-2) ...
Now configuring VMware Player. (This may take some time...)
Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0.

Configuring a NAT network for vmnet8.

Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)...

The subnet 172.16.109.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.

Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1.

Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)...

The subnet 172.16.215.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.

Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor done
   Virtual ethernet done
   Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 failed
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet1 (background) done
   Host-only networking on /dev/vmnet8 (background) done
   NAT service on /dev/vmnet8 done
invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-player
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)