[WBEL-users] VMWare Installation Header Error

[Pete Biggs]

On Wed, 2005-02-16 at 15:07 -0800, Ed Morrison wrote:
> > Because you haven't got the correct kernel-source installed.  What is
> > the output of 'rpm -q --all | grep kernel'?
> 
> [root at whited root]# rpm -q --all | grep kernel
> kernel-pcmcia-cs-3.1.31-13
> kernel-2.4.21-15.EL
> kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.6
> kernel-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL
> kernel-2.4.21-20.EL
> kernel-2.4.21-15.0.3.EL
> 

OK. You don't actually have the kernel-source package installed and that
is the one that contains all the headers that vmware wants.  To install
the correct one do:

   yum install kernel-source-2.4.21-20.0.1.EL

The 2.4.20 headers that vmware is finding are probably left lying around
from an old install.  The kernel source is installed in /usr/src, so you
should look in there and you will probably see the directory
linux-2.4.20.

Pete

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