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I downloaded VMware-Player-5.0.1-894247.i386.bundle but when I tried to install it from the terminal I got 

Magic number does not match

I use Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit with 2Gb ram.

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@Dr_Bunsen Don't do that again. – Bruno Pereira♦ Jan 18 at 7:30
lol, I get what this community is about then. – Dr_Bunsen Jan 18 at 16:42

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Magic number does not match seems to indicate that your download did not go correctly. Please re-download and try again.

Source 1 and source 2

If you know the hash for the file you can use md5sum to check your download.

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