how do you get VMware to work

[wcmepperly]

Hello well i got to the point:

code: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.



i got no idea what to do from here

[noviceLinux]

Hi,

You can look into /usr/include

To locate any file ,use

#locate filename

regards
noviceLinux

[coopstah13]

thats the default location for the header files for a custom kernel would be, I don't think the vmware script attempts any detection, you have to point that to the path of your header files for your kernel, it would be helpful to know what distro you are using

[wcmepperly]

it couldnt find my C header file and that directory didnt work, im not sure what kernel im using i havent used this computer in awhile so i dont remember much about Linux

[coopstah13]

linux installation of vmware is not the easiest task

you need to figure out what kernel you are running and either download the source for it or install the headers using your package manager, which again will depend on the distro you are using, open console and post output of

uname -r

and also please tell me what distro you are using

[wcmepperly]

this is what i got from that command:

code: root@1[~]# uname -r
2.6.15-27-desktop
root@1[~]#


And where do i get my distro from?

[coopstah13]

cat /etc/lsb-release

this works on ubuntu at least, i'm not sure if its standard to all distros though, otherwise i'm sure you can see in the /boot/grub/menu.lst file

[wcmepperly]

Here is what both commands gave me:

Code: root@2[~]# cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=6.06
DISTRIB_CODENAME=dapper
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS"
root@2[~]# /boot/grub/menu.lst
bash: /boot/grub/menu.lst: Permission denied
root@2[~]#

[coopstah13]

do this

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get install build-essential

then your header files will be located somewhere in /usr/src

[wcmepperly]

I went through all the files in there and i didnt find anything