Fedora 10 and VMWare Tools

[allenFisher]

Hello, I have Fusion 2.0.2 and have installed Fedora 10 from the Live CD (x586, I believe). I've been unable to build the VMWare tools. It gets to the point where it asks me where the kernel header files are, and it can't find them. Following advice found on these forums, I installed the Kernel-Devel package through add sofware to no avail. I saw something about updating the Kernel, but I'm unsure how to do that (I'm not new to Linux, but new to Fedora). Any suggestions on how to get the tools going?

Thanks,

Allen

[Superkikim]

You have to install the correct source for your running kernel. Just installing kernel-devel does not help because that installs the latest sources.

To install the source for the running kernel, and then have it under /usr/src...., type the following command:

yum install kernel-devel-`uname -r` uname -r yum install kernel-devel-result yum install kernel-devel-2.6.27.35-170.2.94.fc10.i686

or if you don't know how to have the ` sign on your keyboard,

uname -r

note the result

yum install kernel-devel-result

i.e. if uname -r returns 2.6.27.35-170.2.94.fc10.i686, type

yum install kernel-devel-2.6.27.35-170.2.94.fc10.i686

Then, rerun vmware-install.pl