Comment 10 for bug 47538

Here's an English version of the installation error, for google:

murrayc@murrayc-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get install vmware-player
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
vmware-player is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
1 not fully installed or removed.
Need to get 0B of archives.
After unpacking 0B of additional disk space will be used.
Setting up vmware-player (1.0.2-2) ...
Now configuring VMware Player. (This may take some time...)
Configuring a bridged network for vmnet0.

Configuring a NAT network for vmnet8.

Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)...

The subnet 172.16.188.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases~ that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet8/nat/nat.conf that this program was about to install
already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

Configuring a host-only network for vmnet1.

Probing for an unused private subnet (this can take some time)...

The subnet 192.168.229.0/255.255.255.0 appears to be unused.

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.conf that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

The file /etc/vmware/vmnet1/dhcpd/dhcpd.leases~ that this program was about to
install already exists. Overwrite? [yes]

Starting VMware services:
   Virtual machine monitor done
   Virtual ethernet done
VMware Player is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the
following command: /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl.

invoke-rc.d: initscript vmware-player, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing vmware-player (--configure):
 subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Errors were encountered while processing:
 vmware-player
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
murrayc@murrayc-laptop:~$