On an AMD64 box, vmware workstation 5.5 needs the emulated gtk libs available to run. It would seem that adding: amd64? ( app-emulation/emul-linux-x86-gtklibs ) to the RDEPEND section of vmware-workstation-5.5.1.19175.ebuild would fix this. Without them you get a pile of errors as such: cabbey@tweedle ~ $ vmware Unable to load image-loading module: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory ...same message repeated a lot... Unable to load image-loading module: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-png.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory (vmware:27671): GdkPixbuf-WARNING **: Error loading XPM image loader: Unable to load image-loading module: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: /build/mts/release/bora-19175/bora/build/release/ws/vmui/../libdir/libconf/lib/gtk-2.0/2.4.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-xpm.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
Fixed in CVS