my kernel is 5.4.0-42-generic
VMware-Player-15.5.6-16341506.x86_64.bundle (the free version) installer aborts as follows:
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
/tmp/tmp4t3ofyjx.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.GCBpAm/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
In fact I am trying to update after 15.5.0 gave up on me. MAKE reports
2020-07-25T12:59:05.861+02:00| host-16114| I125+ make[2]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-3reCBk/vmnet-only/userif.o] Error 1
2020-07-25T12:59:05.861+02:00| host-16114| I125+ make[2]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
2020-07-25T12:59:05.861+02:00| host-16114| I125+ make[1]: *** [/tmp/modconfig-3reCBk/vmnet-only] Error 2
2020-07-25T12:59:05.861+02:00| host-16114| I125+ make: *** [vmnet.ko] Error 2
2020-07-25T12:59:05.861+02:00| host-16114| I125+ Unable to install all modules. See log for details.
Make fails after 6 errors building the kernel, similar to [full log attached]
error: ‘skb_frag_t {aka const struct bio_vec}’ has no member named ‘size’