I had to chown user.user ~/.vmware to get vmware to even run.

It still reports the error:

/usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2)
Everything appears to work at least for now though. What is the cause of this error?