VMRC 10.0.1 fails to launch on Ubuntu 17.10

[dlrohm]

I'm trying to launch VMRC 10.0.1 on Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 and I'm seeing the following errors (cherry-picked here for brevity):

2017-10-20T18:03:59.767-04:00| appLoader| I125: AppLoaderLoadShippedGlibDeps: Failed to open /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libiconv.so.2/libiconv.so.2.  /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libiconv.so.2/libiconv.so.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

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2017-10-20T18:03:59.877-04:00| appLoader| I125: Unable to dlopen libgtk-3.so.0 on the system.  /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16)

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2017-10-20T18:03:59.880-04:00| appLoader| I125: Unable to dlopen libgtkmm-3.0.so.1 on the system.  /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpng16.so.16)

...

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2017-10-20T18:03:59.998-04:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to load dependencies for /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmrc.so/libvmrc.so

2017-10-20T18:03:59.998-04:00| appLoader| W115: Unable to execute /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmrc.

System info:

OS: Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 x64

Kernel: 4.13.0-16

My system has libpng (libpng16-16) version 1.6.34-1 installed.

GTK: 3.22.24-0

GCC: 7.2.0

After doing some searches I found from past releases of VMRC that rolling back the version of libpng solved the issue for some people, but I would rather not go that route as it could bork up my system.  Has anyone else experienced this issue?  Any ideas how I might be able to get around it?

Doug

[D4ns3n]

Hi Doug,

i have a similar problem... my VMRC is not starting...the icon appears in the plank and disappears after a while.

My system is exactly the same... Ubuntu Budgie 17.10 and exactly the same versions of kernel, libpng, gtk and gcc.

Did you get it work in the meantime?

- Dansen

[dlrohm]

Hi Dansen,

I haven't been able to get it to work.  I'm hoping they're working on a new VMRC release that will work with Ubuntu 17.10, but I haven't heard anything yet.  If I hear anything I'll update this post.

Doug

[kimmeltk · Accepted solution]

They posted vmrc 10.0.2 on 16Nov17 that fixed the issue for me.  Download it and give it a try.

[dlrohm]

Yes, this fixed it for me as well!  Thanks posting that they released it.

[D4ns3n]

Yay, the new version fixed it for me too! Thanks!