After I did a Kernel update VMware-Player had to do a reinstall and it didn't.
Thank someone for "Timeshift". I managed to roll back to working installation.
Then downloaded and tried the latest version of VmWare player ... no joy:
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$ cd /home/XXXXX/Downloads
$ sudo ./VMware-Player-15.5.6-16341506.x86_64.bundle
[sudo] password for XXXXX:
Extracting VMware Installer...done.
/tmp/tmpbxds2o8v.vmis.env:4: DeprecationWarning: the imp module is deprecated in favour of importlib; see the module's documentation for alternative uses
import imp
/tmp/vmis.iAlRZf/install/vmware-installer/vmis-launcher: error while loading shared libraries: libcrypto.so.1.0.2: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
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Working system is running on:
Linux Mint 19.2 Tina 64-bit
Kernel Linux 5.3.0.-53-generic x86_64
MATE 1.22.0