Installation error on Fedora 25: could not open display

[DemianP]

I have a display error in the installation process:

[root@pcroot Downloads]# ./VMware-Workstation-Full-12.5.5-5234757.x86_64.bundle --console

Extracting VMware Installer...done.

User interface initialization failed.  Exiting.  Check the log for details.

The log show:

[root@pcroot Downloads]# cat /var/log/vmware-installer

[2017-04-24 11:32:34,682]

[2017-04-24 11:32:34,682]

[2017-04-24 11:32:34,682] Installer running.

[2017-04-24 11:32:34,682] Command Line Arguments:

[2017-04-24 11:32:34,682] ['/tmp/vmis.Ie2IPi/install/vmware-installer/vmware-installer.py', '--set-setting', 'vmware-installer', 'libconf', '/tmp/vmis.Ie2IPi/install/vmware-installer/lib/libconf', '--install-component', '/tmp/vmis.Ie2IPi/install/vmware-installer', '--install-bundle', '/home/demian/Downloads/./VMware-Workstation-Full-12.5.5-5234757.x86_64.bundle', '']

[2017-04-24 11:32:34,929] /tmp/vmis.Ie2IPi/install/vmware-installer/python/pygtk/gtk/__init__.py:69: GtkWarning: could not open display

  warnings.warn(str(e), _gtk.Warning)

[2017-04-24 11:32:34,930] Unable to initialize gtk: could not open display

[2017-04-24 11:32:34,931] Could not set up curses...  Falling back on null term type.

[2017-04-24 11:32:34,936] UI Initialization failed.

(...)

Anyone with the same issue? I'm running Fedora 25. Thanks!

[DemianP]

Finally i installed the product. For the community, the steps where:

1- libncurses.so.5 required. The package ncurses-compat installs version 6, so i linked libncurses.so.6 to libncurses.so.5 in the lib directory. No problems with that.

2- the installation of kernel header was manual because the package manager did not install the version corresponding with my kernel (4.8.6-300.fc25.x86_64) Downloaded from http://www.rpmfind.net. Don't forget install gcc compiler.