Archlinux - Kernel 4.11 - VMWare workstation 12.5.7 With this combination, when I launch "vmware", despite the fact I already "export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=force", I get those lines: Unable to load libfontconfig.so.1. /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libz.so.1/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /usr/lib/libpng16.so.16) Unable to load libfontconfig.so.1 from /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libfontconfig.so.1/libfontconfig.so.1: libexpat.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Unable to load dependencies for /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libvmware-modconfig.so/libvmware-modconfig.so In order to workaround, I decided to get the things to the maximum: Add all shipped libraries in the LD_LIBRARY_PATH. So I created my custom launcher of "vmware" and this is the content: #!/bin/bash export VMWARE_USE_SHIPPED_LIBS=force LD_LIBRARY_PATH="" LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$( find /usr/lib/vmware/lib/ -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1 -type d | awk '