I am running Fedora 23 on an AMD Phenom II X4 processor and 6gb of memory. Uname -a returns the following:
[root@localhost bin]# uname -a
Linux localhost.localdomain 4.3.3-303.fc23.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Jan 19 18:31:55 UTC 2016 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

I installed VMware player from this file, downloaded from VMware website:
VMware-Player-12.1.0-3272444.x86_64.bundle
At first it wouldn't start, asking for the location of the kernel-headers. That was solved by installing kernel-devel from a terminal. Now clicking the icon shows it trying to start and doing nothing else. If I start the program from a commmand line I get the following:

[gelam@localhost ~]$ cd /usr/bin
[gelam@localhost bin]$ ./vmplayer

(vmware-modconfig:3034): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

(vmware-modconfig:3034): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1163: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module": libpk-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

(vmplayer:3029): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",

(vmplayer:3029): Gtk-WARNING **: Unable to locate theme engine in module_path: "adwaita",
/usr/share/themes/Adwaita/gtk-2.0/gtkrc:1163: error: unexpected identifier `direction', expected character `}'
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "pk-gtk-module": libpk-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Gtk-Message: Failed to load module "canberra-gtk-module": libcanberra-gtk-module.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'cui::Error'
what(): Unable to load image-loading module: /usr/lib/vmware/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/svg_loader.so: /usr/lib64/librsvg-2.so.2: undefined symbol: g_type_class_adjust_private_offset
Unexpected signal: 6.

VMware Player Error:
VMware Player unrecoverable error: (vmplayer)
Unexpected signal: 6.
A log file is available in "/tmp/vmware-gelam/vmware-vmplayer-3029.log".
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I then installed: dnf install libpk-gtk-module.so; and dnf install libcanberra-gtk-module.so
I can also see these with the locate command: /usr/lib/vmware/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/svg_loader.so: /usr/lib64/librsvg-2.so.2:

Any help would be appreciated, is there a similar program that is easier to install in Fedora?

The issue is in:

https://communities.vmware.com/thread/523835

As root excecute:

# cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib

# for mylib in $(ls /usr/lib64/*4600*); do /bin/cp -afv $mylib $(basename $mylib .4600.2 )/$(basename $mylib .4600.2 ); done

Done !!!

Thanks for the help. However here are my results. I'm I missing syntax somewhere?
[gelam@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost gelam]# cd /usr/lib/vmware/lib
[root@localhost lib]# for mylib in $(ls /usr/lib64/*4600*); do /bin/cp -afv $mylib $(basename $mylib .4600.1)/$(basename $mylib .4600.1); done
‘/usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.4600.2’ -> ‘libgio-2.0.so.0.4600.2/libgio-2.0.so.0.4600.2’
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file ‘libgio-2.0.so.0.4600.2/libgio-2.0.so.0.4600.2’: No such file or directory
‘/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.2’ -> ‘libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.2/libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.2’
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file ‘libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.2/libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.2’: No such file or directory
‘/usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4600.2’ -> ‘libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4600.2/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4600.2’
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file ‘libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4600.2/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4600.2’: No such file or directory
‘/usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.2’ -> ‘libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.2/libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.2’
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file ‘libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.2/libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.2’: No such file or directory
‘/usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so.0.4600.2’ -> ‘libgthread-2.0.so.0.4600.2/libgthread-2.0.so.0.4600.2’

Sorry, AM i missing syntax?

Please susbstitute ".4600.1" with ".4600.2" in the for sentence:

# for mylib in $(ls /usr/lib64/*4600*); do /bin/cp -afv $mylib $(basename $mylib .4600.2 )/$(basename $mylib .4600.2 ); done

It fix the issue.

Greetings.

I got this:
root@ram-Vostro-3500:/usr/lib64# for mylib in $(ls /usr/lib64/*4600*); do /bin/cp -afv $mylib $(basename $mylib .4600.2 )/$(basename $mylib .4600.2 ); done
ls: cannot access /usr/lib64/*4600*: No such file or directory

Sorry it took this long to get back to this: Substituting 4600.2 for 4600.1 gave me this result:
[gelam@localhost ~]$ su
Password:
[root@localhost gelam]# for mylib in $(ls /usr/lib64/*4600*); do /bin/cp -afv $mylib $(basename $mylib .4600.2)/$(basename $mylib .4600.2); done
‘/usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.4600.2’ -> ‘libgio-2.0.so.0/libgio-2.0.so.0’
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file ‘libgio-2.0.so.0/libgio-2.0.so.0’: No such file or directory
‘/usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0.4600.2’ -> ‘libglib-2.0.so.0/libglib-2.0.so.0’
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file ‘libglib-2.0.so.0/libglib-2.0.so.0’: No such file or directory
‘/usr/lib64/libgmodule-2.0.so.0.4600.2’ -> ‘libgmodule-2.0.so.0/libgmodule-2.0.so.0’
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file ‘libgmodule-2.0.so.0/libgmodule-2.0.so.0’: No such file or directory
‘/usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0.4600.2’ -> ‘libgobject-2.0.so.0/libgobject-2.0.so.0’
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file ‘libgobject-2.0.so.0/libgobject-2.0.so.0’: No such file or directory
‘/usr/lib64/libgthread-2.0.so.0.4600.2’ -> ‘libgthread-2.0.so.0/libgthread-2.0.so.0’
/bin/cp: cannot create regular file ‘libgthread-2.0.so.0/libgthread-2.0.so.0’: No such file or directory
[root@localhost gelam]# exit
exit
[gelam@localhost ~]$

Basically the same as using 4600.1
Any help would be appreciated

The idea is to replace some of VM Player's bundled lib files (located in /usr/lib/vmware/lib/) with the ones from Fedora (located in /usr/lib64/). What does ls -o /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0 show? If it says, for example, /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0 -> libgio-2.0.so.0.4800.1, then libgio-2.0.so.0.4800.1 is the one Fedora is using, and you can manually copy it over with sudo cp -av /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0.4800.1 /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgio-2.0.so.0/libgio-2.0.so.0. Repeat for libglib-2.0.so.0, libgmodule-2.0.so.0, libgobject-2.0.so.0 and libgthread-2.0.so.0.

@Glowing Trunk - You sir are a genius! It works fine now. I have been looking for the answer to this for at least a year. Thank you for your help...