Hello,

Old problems installing VMWare in Kali were solved by (reference to https://communities.vmware.com/message/2622814#2622814)

See my simple solution for Kali Linux newest (Rolling) distribution:

It seems that you need to point to the gcc-5 binary executable.

When the vmware installation prompts that a compatible version of gcc was not found supply it with the path /usr/bin/gcc-5

First be sure to check that you actually have the gcc-5 compiler installed:
gcc-5 --version
gcc-5 (Debian 5.4.1-1) 5.4.1 20160803
Copyright (C) 2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

If not install it using apt-get:
# apt-get install gcc-5

But now, a new problem has arisen: In the latest release of Kali and Kali rolling repository, gcc-5 has been removed so I cannot install VMWare this way. Has anyone experienced (and solved) this problem?

Cheers!