"Line 302 Permission Denied" error while installing VMware Player
Solution 1:
It is likely that the installer is trying to execute a binary in the /tmp folder.
It is probable that whatever partition you have your /tmp folder in, it is configured in /etc/fstab to be "noexec". This means that no binaries are allowed to be executed on that partition.
My advice is to move /tmp to its own partition that has "exec" rights in your fstab line options.
Alternatively, temporarily change "noexec" to "exec" in fstab - install vmware and then switch it back again.