Installing VMWare 25H2u1 on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

[Pnut12]

OK, am very close to completely abandoning the idea of having VMWare installed on my Ubuntu 24.04 LTS machine. So I have seen the YouTube videos, where the dependencies are installed, and then VMware, and everything works peachy. This is not the case with my experience.

I have installed the dependencies with the following:

sudo apt install curl git gcc-12 libgcc-12-dev build-essential linux-headers-$(uname -r) -y

Then, VMWare, to no avail. When I try to run the required modules, (Before you can run VMWare several modules must be compiled and loaded into running kernel)

Then, the error code "Unable to install vmmon and vmnet modules for VMware"

My apologies in advance, I am a rather novice Ubuntu user, love the OS, and when I installed VMWare on my old Windows 10 machine, it just worked. Is there something obvious I am missing?

[louyo]

If your system is set up for secure boot, you could be running into the problem of non-signed modules. I hit that on some kernel upgrades (debian). I use this KB:

https://knowledge.broadcom.com/external/article?legacyId=2146460

Lou

[Pitphilai Kumar Pandey]

Can you try running this command and then restarting the machine to see if the issue still persists?

sudo apt update

sudo apt install build-essential

[Pnut12]

Pitphilai Kumar Pandey, question, I installed the build-essential package as per the install command in my OP.  Is it a case where I should uninstall all of the others and only install the build-essentials dependency?  Please advise, still learning all of this.

[Pitphilai Kumar Pandey]

Pnut12 , generally, we do not need to uninstall all other packages to use Workstation.
If you are still facing an issue, could you please share the logs?
What is your current kernel version?
Also, please try once with secure boot disabled.

Thanks,
Pitphilai