Installing Vmware v71

[Tong Sun <suntong@cpan.org>]

[4th attempt, trying to play with keywords to circumvent the spam filter]

Hi,

I'm having difficulties installing Vmware v71 under Debian Testing.
I always get

 gcc and kernel headers must be installed

while doing "vmware-modconfig --console --install-all", even though
I got both gcc and kernel headers installed.

Here is the log from /tmp/vmware-root/setup-26614.log

 Oct 03 23:03:25.056: app-140116279654144| Log for VMware Workstation
 pid=26614 version=7.1.2 build=build-301548 option=Release
 Oct 03 23:03:25.056: app-140116279654144| The process is 64-bit.
 Oct 03 23:03:25.056: app-140116279654144| Host codepage=UTF-8
 encoding=UTF-8
 Oct 03 23:03:25.056: app-140116279654144| modconf query interface
 initialized
 Oct 03 23:03:25.060: app-140116279654144| modconf library initialized
 Oct 03 23:03:25.110: app-140116279654144| Trying to find a suitable PBM
 set for kernel 2.6.35-grml64.
 Oct 03 23:03:25.123: app-140116279654144| Your GCC version: 4.4
 Oct 03 23:03:25.137: app-140116279654144| Your GCC version: 4.4

The last 84K of trace output is posted in
http://paste.grml.org/85/

Seems that it successfully open the version.h file, them moved on
probing the directories, then failed somehow. Anyone knows how to
keep vmware-modconfig going?

I googled, and seems that VmWare-Workstation 7 has been at least
successfully installed in other distros.

I tried VmWare v7.0, v7.1 and the lasted v7.1.2, which was release
just several seeks ago. All ended up with the same result. Please
help me having vmware installed.

I know someone would say that grml is not Debian. I agree. But
please note that grml is plain Debian plus some extra kernel modules
and packages. If anyone can get VmWare-Workstation 7 installed on
Debian (Testing/Sid), I would very much like to hear your story.

Thanks a lot.


--
SUN, Tong