This is an extract from <a href="http://clunixchit.blogspot.com/2006_03_01_clunixchit_archive.html">this page</a>.
Getting VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm work on Fedora Core 5 'Bordeaux':
1. Get the rpm of the free VMWare Player
2. Download the linux image e.g VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm
3. Install it with rpm -ivh VMware-player-1.0.1-19317.i386.rpm
4. Then its time to download the patch: wget -c http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update104.tar.gz
5. Extract the archive: tar xvf vmware-any-any-update104.tar.gz
6. cd vmware-any-any-update104
7. Complete the installation by: su -c "./runme.pl"
