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Re: trying to run VMwareworkstation 3.0.0-1455..says I have wrong kernel headers



Walter Tautz <wtautz@math.uwaterloo.ca> writes:
> during the run of vmware-config.pl it keeps asking for the
> location of the kernel headers, so I tell it /usr/include
> but it complains: (I am running testing (woody)):
> 
> ------------- Begining of config log------------------
> 
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match
> your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/include

You really shouldn't use the header files in /usr/include/linux for
anything if you can help it; they're only there because some things in
libc depend on them.  (See /usr/share/doc/libc6/README.Debian for more
details.)  If you need to build a kernel module you need a kernel
source tree corresponding to your kernel; if you're running a
Debian-provided kernel, you can use the appropriate kernel-source-*
package for this purpose.

-- 
David Maze         dmaze@debian.org      http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/
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	-- Abra Mitchell



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