VMWare Server Note on Debian/Ubuntu (Perhaps Others As Well)
I'm a big fan of VMWare Server... I have VMWare Workstation on my Desktop but on my laptop I use VMWare Server... It's handy and the ability to allow others to remotely connect to it is great. It's also free.. which means not having to buy an additional license.
I hadn't used VMWare on my laptop in a little while and I went to run it this evening... Imagine my surprise when I couldn't run it... I got an error message that I'd never seen before.
/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
I did some googling and came across this forum thread. I tried a couple of the options provided and most of them proved fairly useless... Then one of the suggestions saved the day.
Uninstall libdbus-1-2. There were no dependencies to it... (a small python package and that was it)... and as soon as I removed it and reinstalled VMWare Server it was up and running like a dream.