followed the above steps on a clean install of Ubuntu 11.10 and received this error message.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
vmware-view-client:i386: Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4) but 2.2.0-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.6-6~) but 2.13-20ubuntu5 is to be installed
Depends: libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1) but 1:4.6.1-9ubuntu3 is to be installed
Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0) but 2.24.0-1ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0) but 2.30.0-0ubuntu4 is to be installed
Depends: libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.18.0) but 2.24.6-0ubuntu5 is to be installed
Depends: libpango1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0) but 1.29.3+git20110916-0ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libstdc++6 (>= 4.1.1) but 4.6.1-9ubuntu3 is to be installed
Depends: libxi6 (>= 2:1.1.2) but 2:1.4.3-3ubuntu1 is to be installed
Depends: libxml2 (>= 2.6.27) but 2.7.8.dfsg-4 is to be installed
Depends: libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0) but 2:1.3.2-2 is to be installed
Depends: zlib1g (>= 1:1.1.4) but 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3ubuntu3 is to be installed