smjain's Accepted Solutions

Found the solution here: http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=231&t=169197 The package  libgtkmm-2.4-1c2a needs to be added.
A reboot was required. After that, the install proceeded quickly.  Seems that something was hanging around from the VMw Wks 9 install that was causing the install to fail.