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squrppi
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‎09-04-2012 04:59 AM

VMware tools 9.2.0 not installing in Debian 6.0.5

I am making a fresh installation of Debian 6.0.5 64-bit under Windows 7 based VMware player. That done, I'm trying to install VMware tools 9.2.0 in it:

apt-get install linux-headers-$(uname -r)

apt-get install make

./vmware-install.pl

Gcc is found fine, but then I get this error:

The path "" is not a valid path to the 2.6.32-5-amd64 kernel headers.

Trying the older version 8.8.4 finds the headers just fine (and installs) in the very same setup. Using the path

/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-amd64/build/include

in the 9.2.0 installation is not accepted and the installation script still complains that the path is not valid.

Please assist.

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Chebe
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‎11-20-2013 07:56 PM

Same problem with two Debian Wheezy 7.2 it was installed with previous version, and when switching to ESXi 5.5 did the vmware-tools upgrade ... it worked with 50 others Smiley Sad can't figure what is wrong !

Searching for GCC...

Detected GCC binary at "/usr/bin/gcc-4.6".

The path "/usr/bin/gcc-4.6" appears to be a valid path to the gcc binary.

Would you like to change it? [no]

Searching for a valid kernel header path...

The path "" is not a valid path to the 3.2.0-4-amd64 kernel headers.

Would you like to change it? [yes]

If anyone has any clue on where to start looking !

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