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From: Van Chocstraw on 23 Dec 2009 14:22 C header files matching your running kernel were not found. Refer to your distribution's documentation for installation instructions I get this when trying to finish the install of VMware Player. There are many directories with header files. I have directed it to every directory with .h files on the system. What is trying to tell me?
From: Lew Pitcher on 23 Dec 2009 15:19 On December 23, 2009 14:22, in alt.os.linux.suse, boobooililililil(a)roadrunner.com wrote: > C header files matching your running kernel were not found. Refer to > your distribution's documentation for installation instructions > > I get this when trying to finish the install of VMware Player. There are > many directories with header files. I have directed it to every > directory with .h files on the system. What is trying to tell me? It's trying to tell you that you don't have a set of .h files that it expects to find. It is likely looking for .h files in /usr/include/linux, or one of the other places that "kernel header" files are stored. Have you installed the kernel headers package? -- Lew Pitcher Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training | Registered Linux User #112576 Me: http://pitcher.digitalfreehold.ca/ | Just Linux: http://justlinux.ca/ ---------- Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing. ------
From: David Bolt on 23 Dec 2009 17:46 On Wednesday 23 Dec 2009 20:19, while playing with a tin of spray paint, Lew Pitcher painted this mural: > It's trying to tell you that you don't have a set of .h files that it > expects to find. It is likely looking for .h files in /usr/include/linux, > or one of the other places that "kernel header" files are stored. > > Have you installed the kernel headers package? Not with the error message the OP posted. He needs to install the package linux-kernel-headers to get them. And, for 11.2 at least, you'll need to install the kernel devel packages if you want/need to build kernel modules. Installing the package kernel-syms will pull in the required devel packages. Regards, David Bolt -- Team Acorn: www.distributed.net OGR-NG @ ~100Mnodes RC5-72 @ ~1Mkeys/s openSUSE 11.0 32b | | openSUSE 11.2 32b | openSUSE 11.0 64b | openSUSE 11.1 64b | openSUSE 11.2 64b | TOS 4.02 | openSUSE 11.1 PPC | RISC OS 4.02 | RISC OS 3.11
From: Van Chocstraw on 23 Dec 2009 18:40 On 12/23/2009 05:46 PM, David Bolt wrote: > On Wednesday 23 Dec 2009 20:19, while playing with a tin of spray paint, > Lew Pitcher painted this mural: > >> It's trying to tell you that you don't have a set of .h files that it >> expects to find. It is likely looking for .h files in /usr/include/linux, >> or one of the other places that "kernel header" files are stored. >> >> Have you installed the kernel headers package? > > Not with the error message the OP posted. He needs to install the > package linux-kernel-headers to get them. And, for 11.2 at least, > you'll need to install the kernel devel packages if you want/need > to build kernel modules. Installing the package kernel-syms will > pull in the required devel packages. > > > Regards, > David Bolt > Success. Downloaded the source and development packages. VMware compiled the required modules and loaded just fine. Thanks.
From: Van Chocstraw on 24 Dec 2009 08:23
central wrote: > On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:40:03 -0500, Van Chocstraw wrote: > <snip> > >>> >> Success. Downloaded the source and development packages. VMware compiled >> the required modules and loaded just fine. >> >> Thanks. > > so, a follow up (as I'm having vmware problems): did vmware-config run > OK, or do you still have problems? If its all OK, can you tell me exactly > which version of VM you are using as I'll try? > TIA I have the latest version 3. bundle. It's all automatic config and module building. |