C Header Files for Vmware Install

[Nybler77]

Back on this forum after a long hiatus. Now running Debian. Installed gcc-4.1. Vmware 5.5 expects the C header files to be in /usr/src/linux. In fact, they're in /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-amd64........which contains a bunch of shortcuts to header files which are supposedly in the same folder [but hidden? since they are not visible........why does it put shortcuts to objects in the same place as the objects??]

EG. types.h is located at:

/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-amd64/include/linux

and is defined as : link to C header

and the target is: /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4/include/linux/types.h

VMware install insists that /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4/include/linux
is not cool, it wants a linux folder where it expects it. Shall I just copy the contents and put them in the src directory?

MUCHO GRATITUDO FELLOW LINUX DUDOS AND PENGUINOS!!

[iwanabeguru]

you need to make a symlink to the headers file directory

ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.18-4-amd64 /usr/src/linux

[Nybler77]

Hi guru, I will try that. Thanks!