VMWare tools on 8.04

[cseguino]

Hello,

I installed Ubuntu 8.04 in VMWare (I downloaded the iso today). It's working fine but now I'm trying to install the VMWare tools and it's not OK anymore.

I saw detailled procedures all around the Web (http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/ubuntu/install-vmware-tools-on-ubuntu-edgy-eft/) for exemple.

So I run all suggested commands successfully.

So I start the installation and I'm blocked here :

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-24/include/

The path "/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.24-24/include" is a kernel header file
directory, but it does not contain the file "linux/version.h" as expected. This
can happen if the kernel has never been built, or if you have invoked the "make
mrproper" command in your kernel directory. In any case, you may want to
rebuild your kernel.

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running
kernel?


Does anyone can help me ?

Cheers,

Christophe Seguinot

[cariboo907]

A bump for the move from Ubuntu One

[Jive Turkey]

hint: search using synaptic for kernel headers, or take 15sec and use google to find this command:

$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

"sudo apt-get install <blah>" is how you install things from the repositories and "$(uname -r)" is a variable that returns a string(text) equal to the current version of the running kernel.

If your output looks like this you have a bigger problem:user@host:~$ sudo apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)
[sudo] password for user:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
linux-headers-2.6.28-15-generic is already the newest version.
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.