VMWare Workstation Player installation failure in Ubuntu 18.04.4 host

[jer68]

I have installation failing in ubuntu 18.04. 15.5.2 installation worked without problems but can't upgrade to 15.5.5 (to enable ubuntu host upgrade to 20.0.4)

/tmp$ sudo sh /tmp/VMware-Player-15.5.5-16285975.x86_64.bundle

Extracting VMware Installer...done.

/tmp/tmpmsfocr4f.vmis.env:4: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses

  import imp

/tmp/vmis.tYYkMZ/install/vmware-installer/vmis-launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.0.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

/tmp$ md5sum /tmp/VMware-Player-15.5.5-16285975.x86_64.bundle

431b29d426303dd34bb43ef2e1b3f553  /tmp/VMware-Player-15.5.5-16285975.x86_64.bundle

/tmp$ lsb_release -a

No LSB modules are available.

Distributor ID: Ubuntu

Description: Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS

Release: 18.04

Codename: bionic

Anyone else with the same issue? Any solutions?

[jer68]

Same problem with Player 15.5.6

[lostagain]

Same problem with Player 15.5.6 on Linux Mint

libcrypto.so.1.0.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

What is really irritating:

Just in case someone can not read that:

     Package = libssl1.0.0

     installed version = 1.0.2n-ubuntu5.3

     latest version =  1.0.2n-ubuntu5.3

[paololaurenti]

Same problem here on an Ubuntu 20.04 machine.

[jer68 · Accepted solution]

Installing using sudo vmware-installer -i ~/Downloads/VMware-Player-15.5.6-16341506.x86_64.bundle worked for me.