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richardOracleDba
October 26th, 2011, 09:41 PM
I'm having a problem installing VMware Workstation 6.5.5 into Ubuntu 11.10

The message I get says:

"Before you can run VMware Workstation, several modules must be compiled and loaded into the running kernal
Kernel Headers 3.0.0-12-generic

Kernel headers for version 3.0.0-12-generic were not found....."

It gives me the option of pointing the installer to the headers. I can see the following in /usr/src:


drwxr-xr-x 24 root root 4096 2011-10-13 23:42 linux-headers-3.0.0-12
drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 2011-10-13 23:42 linux-headers-3.0.0-12-generic

Sadly, when pointing the installer at these it says:

"C Header files matching your running kernel were not found...."

Can anyone offer a solution or way forward?

Thanks.

gsmanners
October 26th, 2011, 10:23 PM
This seems apropos: http://www.vmware.com/support/product-support/workstation.html