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Fix VMware Workstation on PopOS
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pop_vmware_host_modules.sh
#!/bin/bash
VMWARE_VERSION="workstation-$(vmware -v|grep -oE "[[:digit:]]+.[[:digit:]]+.[[:digit:]]+"| head -n1)" # this is detect the version you have VMware Workstation 16.2.1 build-18811642
TMP_FOLDER=/tmp/patch-vmware
rm -fdr $TMP_FOLDER
mkdir -p $TMP_FOLDER
cd $TMP_FOLDER
git clone https://github.com/mkubecek/vmware-host-modules.git
cd $TMP_FOLDER/vmware-host-modules
git checkout $VMWARE_VERSION
git fetch
make
sudo make install
sudo rm /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1
sudo ln -s /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1
sudo /etc/init.d/vmware restart
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