On 4/3/06, Visser, Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 1. "apt-get install kernel-headers" which actually just returns a
> virtual package prompting to select the correct architecture
>
> 2. so then "apt-get install kernel-headers-2.6.12-something" grabs the
> package and nice-ly puts it under /usr/src/
>
> 3. Then running the vmware install, which all works without much
> coercion until you find that the gcc that the kernel was built with
> (3.4) doesn't match the standard gcc installed (4.0)
>
> 4. Again this is a pretty simple "apt-get install gcc-3.4"
>
> 5. Running vmware install again and it is all good.

And if you wish to run the vmware-server mui package too,

apt-get install libdb2

Otherwise the apache server for the mui interface dont run and will
complain about a missing package.

Works great :)
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