VMware wants C headers at /usr/src/linux/include

[Kam Leo]

On 5/8/06, James Pifer <jep at obrien-pifer.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 21:04 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:39, Ed Greshko wrote:
> >
> > > > I've installed both src and devel packages for my kernel on FC5. I still
> > > > don't have anything at /usr/src/linux/include, which is where vmware
> > > > player is looking for the C headers.
> > > >
> > > > Can anyone tell me which packages I might be missing?
> > >
> > > Sounds like you are installing Vmware where Linux is the host OS.
> > >
> > > You need to download
> > > http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz
> > >
> > > Unpack it and read the documentation.
> >
> > You also need the kernel-devel package to exactly match
> > the running kernel.  For some reason mine didn't work until
> > I removed it and let yum install it over again.
> >
> > --
>
> Here's the weird thing. See the commands below. I can remove the devel
> packages I have installed. Then if I run yum install kernel-devel, it
> tries to install the wrong devel package.
>
> Any ideas? Thanks.
> James
>
> [root at laptop install]# uname -a
> Linux laptop.domain.com 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp #1 SMP Wed Apr 19 05:31:55
> EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
>
> [root at laptop install]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5.src.rpm
>    1:kernel                 ###########################################
> [100%]
>
> [root at laptop install]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
>
> [root at laptop install]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
>
> [root at laptop install]# rpm -e kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> [root at laptop install]# rpm -e kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> [root at laptop install]# rpm -qa | grep kernel
> kernel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5
> [root at laptop install]# yum install kernel-devel
> Loading "installonlyn" plugin
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> dries
> [1/7]
> freshrpms
> [2/7]
> livna
> [3/7]
> updates
> [4/7]
> atrpms-stable
> [5/7]
> base
> [6/7]
> extras
> [7/7]
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> Parsing package install arguments
> Resolving Dependencies
> --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait.
> ---> Downloading header for kernel-devel to pack into transaction set.
> kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.211 100% |=========================| 981 kB
> 00:00
> ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 set to be installed
> --> Running transaction check
>
> Dependencies Resolved
>
> =============================================================================
>  Package                 Arch       Version          Repository
> Size
> =============================================================================
> Installing:
>  kernel-devel            i686       2.6.16-1.2111_FC5  updates
> 4.7 M
>
> Transaction Summary
> =============================================================================
> Install      1 Package(s)
> Update       0 Package(s)
> Remove       0 Package(s)
> Total download size: 4.7 M
> Is this ok [y/N]: n
> Exiting on user Command
> Complete!
> [root at laptop install]#
>

Upgrade the kernel and kernel-devel to the latest or do "yum install
kernel-devel-$(uname -r).