Comment 25 for bug 57957

Jonathan Gordon's instructions worked well for me to preserve a functioning VMWare Player ver. 1 install from Applications | Add/Remove.

It may be helpful if Mr. Gordon let us know how to go about finding these wayward scripts, when we see this error being returned (I'm a Linux newbie).

I found a few different installs which had this problem, when I was researching my own VMWare issue. They were found via a Google search for "subprocess post-installation script returned error". Among them was JRE, oss-linux, etc., many on the Ubuntu forums.

Most of the references deal with uninstalling the offending software, which makes sense as it's probably a botched install which causes the script error. I was lucky enough to get mine working and use this method to shut down the triggering script. I didn't try Corey's last modification.

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