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I installed vmware per the userguide given for Mint and everything went okay and I got the message "installation was successful" however, there is no entry for it in Menu -> System Tools or anywhere else that I can find.
here are some items from my /usr/bin folder:
well there's no such thing as "vmware", that's a software company. what actual product have you installed? outside of Player, there should be a service in /etc/init.d to run.
but that file wasn't in /usr/bin. I tried just reinstalling (without uninstalling), but the installer just told me everything was okay. I am thinking that uninstalling and reinstalling will just put me right back here.
um.. sorry to waste anyone's time. i had installed vmware "vix" which is some sort of API thing. I went and installed vmware player and everything is now fine.
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