C header files location

Sat Dec 9 02:54:15 UTC 2006

Interestinghtat I get this... 

What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your 
running
kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/include 

The path "/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/include" is an existing directory, but 
it
does not contain at least one of these directories "linux", "asm", "net" as
expected. 

It's interesting because the /usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/include *does* 
contain a 'linux' directory... 

Chris 

chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org writes: 

> Chris Aitken writes:  
> 
>> Lennart Sorensen wrote:  
>> 
>>> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 02:56:26PM -0500, chris-n/jUll39koHNgV/OU4+dkA at public.gmane.org wrote:
>>>    
>>> 
>>>> I am trying to install VMware from the original CD. Trying to run 
>>>> vmware-config.pl I am getting:   
>>>> 
>>>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your 
>>>> running
>>>> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]   
>>>> 
>>>> I hit Enter to accept defult and get:   
>>>> 
>>>> The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.   
>>>> 
>>>> I ran updatedb, then I adjusted the path to reflect directories, tried 
>>>> that and got:   
>>>> 
>>>> The path "/usr/src/linux-2.6.5-1.358/include" is an existing directory, 
>>>> but it
>>>> does not contain at least one of these directories "linux", "asm", 
>>>> "net" as
>>>> expected.   
>>>> 
>>>> What am I doing wrong here?      
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> What distribution are you running?  
>>> 
>>> On debian I do it this way:  
>>> 
>>> apt-get install linux-headers-`uname -r`
>>> vmware-config.pl  
>>> 
>>> Use /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r`/include as the answer to vmware's
>>> question.  Expand the `uname -r` yourself.  
>>> 
>>> Always worked for me.
> 
> yum install linux-headers- 'uname -r'
> Setting up Install Process
> Setting up repositories
> updates-released          100% |=========================|  951 B    00:00
> extras                    100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> http://mirror.netglobalis.net/pub/fedora/core/4/i386/os/repodata/repomd.xm 
> l: [Er
> rno 4] IOError: HTTP Error 404: Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2006 01:37:27 GMT
> Server: NOYB
> Content-Length: 313
> Connection: close
> Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
> Trying other mirror.
> base                      100% |=========================| 1.1 kB    00:00
> Reading repository metadata in from local files
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 299 kB    00:02
> updates-re: ################################################## 782/782
> Added 782 new packages, deleted 0 old in 15.57 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 1.2 MB    00:10
> extras    : ################################################## 3988/3988
> Added 3988 new packages, deleted 0 old in 58.06 seconds
> primary.xml.gz            100% |=========================| 824 kB    00:06
> base      : ################################################## 2772/2772
> Added 2772 new packages, deleted 0 old in 36.80 seconds
> Parsing package install arguments
> No Match for argument: linux-headers-
> No Match for argument: uname -r
> Nothing to do
> [root at localhost ~]# vmware-config.pl
> Making sure VMware Workstation's services are stopped.  
> 
> Stopping VMware services:
>  Virtual machine monitor                                 [  OK  ]  
> 
> Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.  
> 
> None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for your
> running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module 
> for
> your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? 
> [yes] yes  
> 
> Using compiler "/usr/bin/gcc". Use environment variable CC to override.  
> 
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your 
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] /usr/src/linux-headers- 'uname 
> -r'/include  
> 
> The path "/usr/src/linux-headers- 'uname -r'/include" is not an existing
> directory.  
> 
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your 
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]  
> 
> I don't think that entirely worked.  
> 
> Chris

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