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rhandom
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Fedora VMWare Tools installation problem

During the installation of VMWare Tools on Linux Fedora 13 I get this error:

Searching for GCC...

Detected GCC binary at "/usr/bin/gcc".

The path "/usr/bin/gcc" appears to be a valid path to the gcc binary.

Would you like to change it?

Searching for a valid kernel header path...

The path "" is not valid.

Would you like to change it?

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

Fedora 13 has been updated and I thought I had all files necessary. How can I fix this?

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Entegy
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Using the Terminal log in as root (su) and then run the following: yum install kernel-devel kernel-headers gcc mkinitrd

Then you can install the VMware Tools as normal.

rhandom
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Already have GCC installed and thought I had kernel-devel installed, but the latter was not the case. It is installing now. I will retry VMWare Tools afterwards and I will post back.

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rhandom
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Working. Thanks!

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rhandom
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Fixed thanks to Entegy's awesome answer!

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Entegy
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No problem, I knew I kept that command for a reason. Smiley Wink

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