Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. As per you last comment,
I am marking this bug as invalid.
** Changed in: open-vm-tools (Ubuntu)
Status: New = Invalid
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open-vm-source should recommend installation of packages needed for modules
compilation
Why are all of those packages required for compilation? Isn't open-vm-
source the source package for the kernel modules only? None of the -dev
packages you've mentioned are needed for compiling the open-vm-tools
kernel modules.
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open-vm-source should recommend installation of packages needed
Sorry, it was my mistake. I had problems compiling the open-vm modules, so I
tried many solutions and I also installed those -dev packages following this
article:
http://www.debianadmin.com/install-open-vm-tools-on-debian-40-etch.html
I now understand that the only reason why I couldn't compile
