We need VMware packages for Fedora and Debian (was: C header files location)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2006 at 10:21:30AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote:
> The VMware tar file is fine for the userspace app, but the modules are
> put a little deeper into the system. Additionally, you need the
> correctly configured kernel sources and a build system on the host
> machine.

Building the vmware modules require exactly the same thing as any other
kernel modules package on debian.  So you need linux-headers-`uname -r`.
Not a big deal.  Having it packaged the way other debian kernel module
sources are would be nice though, since then module-assistant can deal
with it and make nice packages that are simple to uninstall later.

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