[SOLVED] vmware-modules blocks vmware-workstation

[oKtosiTe]

Just posting this for anyone who might wonder.

If you run into this when trying to upgrade:

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These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:

Calculating world dependencies... done!
[blocks B     ] <app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15 (is blocking app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.3.34685)
[ebuild     U ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.3.34685 [5.5.1.19175-r7] 109,203 kB
[ebuild     U ] app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1 [1.0.0.13] 0 kB

Total size of downloads: 109,203 kB

!!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be installed
!!!        at the same time on the same system.

For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked

Just unmerge vmware-modules:

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# emerge -aC vmware-modules

and try again; vmware-workstation will pull in the new modules ebuild for you:

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Calculating world dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] app-emulation/vmware-workstation-5.5.3.34685 [5.5.1.19175-r7] 109,203 kB
[ebuild  N    ]  app-emulation/vmware-modules-1.0.0.15-r1  0 kB

Make sure you also run etc-update (or similar) to update the /etc/vmware/installer.sh script.

Now run

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/opt/vmware/workstation/bin/vmware-config.pl

to finish it off.

[optics]

thanks, helped me!

[Tin]

Thank you very much, it unblock me too