I am having trouble installing VMWARE on Linux Mint Debian Edition

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I am having trouble installing VMWARE on Linux Mint Debian Edition

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I am somewhat new to Linux. I am using LMDE2. I want to install VMware so that I can run Fusion 360 (a CAD program) and MS Word on LMDE2 and then maybe even delete my Windows 7 Pro operating system. (I am dual booting with Windows 7 and LMDE2 right now.)

I open up the software manager and type in the search box "vmware." The system comes up with a number of addons and tools but not the program itself (as far as I can tell). VMware is not that obscure a program and if the software manager has 60,000 programs, as I have read that it does, it should have the VMware program, right? I don't know what is wrong here.

So then I thought I would try to do it in the terminal (something which I have never done before). I typed "sudo apt-get install VMware-Player-14.1.1-7528167.x86_64.bundle" . The system says that it can't find the program. (It is located in my "downloads" folder.) So what can I do to install this program? What am I doing wrong.
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Re: I am having trouble installing VMWARE on Linux Mint Debian Edition

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VMW is no free software; so it is a matter of the license.
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Re: I am having trouble installing VMWARE on Linux Mint Debian Edition

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AFAIK, VMWare Player is free of charge for private use.
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"Free of charge" is not the same as free software.
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Re: I am having trouble installing VMWARE on Linux Mint Debian Edition

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Consider virtualbox from oracle instead. There are a lot of people on the forum using it, so lots of advice if you get stuck. It's available in the repos, but an old version - most people recommending downloading the latest deb from oracle. I'm running the version in the repos 5.0.40 and more than happy with it.
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Re: I am having trouble installing VMWARE on Linux Mint Debian Edition

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I agree with AndyMH---VirtualBox. I tried VMWare and didn't like it.
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Re: I am having trouble installing VMWARE on Linux Mint Debian Edition

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Cosmo. wrote: Fri Mar 23, 2018 6:53 am "Free of charge" is not the same as free software.
I'm aware of that, but I can use it non-commercially without legal implications. Do you want to imply, that Debian prohibits the installation of proprietary software? I haven't used VMWare on Debian yet (presently no need for it) but installed it on other host systems without problems.
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I don't use VMW and so I do not have any motivation to deal with their license. But it is very well possible, that they restrict the distribution of their software by third parties.
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Re: I am having trouble installing VMWARE on Linux Mint Debian Edition

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you can use VMWARE on your copy of LMDE2 - - but it won't be found in Software Manager, though:
- you would have to get VMWARE direct from their web site:
https://my.vmware.com/en/web/vmware/fre ... layer/14_0
whereas most folks on this Forum would suggest to use VirtualBox instead:
https://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads
rather than the VirtualBox that is found in Software Manager itself.

it is also correct that VMWARE is Free for Personal Use Only.
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