installing mint on vmware

Hi
i'm realy a newbie in linux, and while installing vmware tools i got\

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searching for a valid kernel header path... The path " " is not valid. Would you like to change it? [yes]

What should i do?

You'll likely need a few packages before installing VMware tools. Most notably the kernel-headers and the kernel0devel. Please try the following command:

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sudo aptitude install build-essential linux-kernel-headers linux-kernel-devel

I hope this helps.

since mint is a ubuntu derivative, there should be the open source vmware tools available in the package manager that you can just install

this way they are automatically updated with every kernel update

Hi

I tried it but it says,

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couldn't find any package whose name or description matched "linux-kernel-devel no packages where installed bla bla bla bla

Please help me!

Hmm, it looks like that particular package doesn't exist in the repositories.. At least not with that name. The funny thing is, I was able to to install the kernel-headers using the following command in Debian:

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sudo apt-get install linux-kernel-headers

I don't know too much about Mint, so I'm downloading it now. I'd imagine that Debian shares the same repositories with Mint, but I could be mistaken.

Later when Mint is done downloading, I'll test it out my self and try to get the tools installed. I'll also see if I can install the headers or not.

Also, I'm not what guide you followed, but the official installation tutorial on VMware's website looks pretty good. Maybe you want to try to reinstall it?

Installing VMware Tools

Either way, once I get Mint installed and try a little experimentation, I'll let you know what I find out.

I did a little research on this issue. Unfortunately, there doesn't exist much information on resolving this error on a Debian system. At least not much I could find. However, on other distributions, it was fixed by installing the kernel-headers, kernel-devel and build essential packages. The linux-kernel-devel package doesn't exist any more on newer versions of Ubuntu and it's derivatives. I believe that 'kernel-package' should have everything that linux-kernel-devel offered.

Try the following command:

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sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-kernel-headers kernel-package

Then try out the tools. Let me know if it doesn't work, and we shall dig a bit further.

*or* you could simply do what I said which is way easier

just install this package open-vm-tools

it will install vmware tools open source version, and with every kernel update this package will be updated as well and you won't have to worry about it

Ugh, I'm a dummy. I don't know why I couldn't find that package.. Perhaps my Google search abilities need some sharpening!

But yeah, definitely follow coopstah13's advice and install the above package. That should have it up and running in no time.

Have fun :)

Hi

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sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-kernel-headers kernel-package

Didn't work!

and when i try to "make" "open vmware tools" i get this...

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-I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -DGTK2 -g -O2 -Wall -Werror -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-value -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-uninitialized -MT appUtilX11.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/appUtilX11.Tpo -c appUtilX11.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/appUtilX11.o appUtilX11.c:39: fatal error: glib.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [appUtilX11.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/appUtil' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 jlsamet@jlsamet-virtual-machine ~/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024 $ sudo make [sudo] password for jlsamet: Making all in lib make[1]: Entering directory `/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib' Making all in guestRpc make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/guestRpc' make[2]: Nothing to be done for `all'. make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/guestRpc' Making all in appUtil make[2]: Entering directory `/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/appUtil' /bin/bash ../../libtool --tag=CC --mode=compile gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"open-vm-tools\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"open-vm-tools\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"8.4.2\" -DPACKAGE_STRING=\"open-vm-tools\ 8.4.2\" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"open-vm-tools\" -DVERSION=\"8.4.2\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -DHAVE_ECVT=1 -DHAVE_FCVT=1 -DHAVE_CRYPT_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_WCHAR_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_IO_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SYSINFO_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_USER_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_VFS_H=1 -DHAVE_UNWIND_H=1 -DHAVE__BOOL=1 -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H=1 -DHAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_RDEV=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_LSEEK=1 -I. -I/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/include -I/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/include -DUSING_AUTOCONF=1 -DOPEN_VM_TOOLS -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include -DUSE_ICU -DVMX86_TOOLS -DNO_CORE_ICU -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -DGTK2 -g -O2 -Wall -Werror -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-value -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-uninitialized -MT appUtilX11.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/appUtilX11.Tpo -c -o appUtilX11.lo appUtilX11.c libtool: compile: gcc -DPACKAGE_NAME=\"open-vm-tools\" -DPACKAGE_TARNAME=\"open-vm-tools\" -DPACKAGE_VERSION=\"8.4.2\" "-DPACKAGE_STRING=\"open-vm-tools 8.4.2\"" -DPACKAGE_BUGREPORT=\"open-vm-tools-devel@lists.sourceforge.net\" -DPACKAGE_URL=\"\" -DPACKAGE=\"open-vm-tools\" -DVERSION=\"8.4.2\" -DSTDC_HEADERS=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_STAT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_STRING_H=1 -DHAVE_MEMORY_H=1 -DHAVE_STRINGS_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_UNISTD_H=1 -DHAVE_DLFCN_H=1 -DLT_OBJDIR=\".libs/\" -DHAVE_ECVT=1 -DHAVE_FCVT=1 -DHAVE_CRYPT_H=1 -DHAVE_INTTYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_STDINT_H=1 -DHAVE_STDLIB_H=1 -DHAVE_WCHAR_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_IO_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_PARAM_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_SYSINFO_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_TYPES_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_USER_H=1 -DHAVE_SYS_VFS_H=1 -DHAVE_UNWIND_H=1 -DHAVE__BOOL=1 -DHAVE_STDBOOL_H=1 -DHAVE_STRUCT_STAT_ST_RDEV=1 -DTIME_WITH_SYS_TIME=1 -DHAVE_LSEEK=1 -I. -I/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/include -I/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/include -DUSING_AUTOCONF=1 -DOPEN_VM_TOOLS -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include -DUSE_ICU -DVMX86_TOOLS -DNO_CORE_ICU -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 -D_LARGEFILE64_SOURCE -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=500 -D_BSD_SOURCE -D_SVID_SOURCE -I/usr/local/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/local/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -DGTK2 -g -O2 -Wall -Werror -Wno-pointer-sign -Wno-unused-value -fno-strict-aliasing -Wno-unknown-pragmas -Wno-uninitialized -MT appUtilX11.lo -MD -MP -MF .deps/appUtilX11.Tpo -c appUtilX11.c -fPIC -DPIC -o .libs/appUtilX11.o appUtilX11.c:39: fatal error: glib.h: No such file or directory compilation terminated. make[2]: *** [appUtilX11.lo] Error 1 make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib/appUtil' make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/jlsamet/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024/lib' make: *** [all-recursive] Error 1 jlsamet@jlsamet-virtual-machine ~/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024 $ make test make: *** No rule to make target `test'. Stop. jlsamet@jlsamet-virtual-machine ~/Downloads/open-vm-tools-8.4.2-261024 $

To download and install the package, you must use the apt-get tool, a popular package distribution interface often found on Debian-based distributions. To install the tools, enter the following command into your terminal:

Code:

sudo apt-get install open-vm-tools

This should install the package, which includes all the dependencies.

Also, for your reading pleasure, a manual on the apt-get tool:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptGet/Howto