I confirm that vmware-player installs without problems after a thorough cleanup of my list of repositories. "Bug" was on my side.
Apologies and Thanks for the help Michael Mais -- VmPlayer Kernel Module not accessable in repositories https://launchpad.net/bugs/83032 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs