On Wed, 24 Mar 2004, Ben Rosengart wrote: > Hello Hatters, > I am trying to install VMware-workstation-4.5.1-7568 on Fedora > Core 1. The install procedure wants to build the vmmon module, > for which it wants kernel source. I have downloaded > kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.src.rpm and installed it (with "rpm -i > kernel-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.src.rpm") but that does not install > anything in /usr/src/linux, where the VMware install wants to find > it. > > I'm new to Red Hat and rpm, so I'm very much at sea. If anyone can > help me get vmmon built, I would be greatly appreciative. Thanks in > advance. (1) You want the kernel-source RPM, not the kernel SRPM. (2) Update your kernel and get the matching kernel-source RPM. $ rpm -q kernel kernel-source kernel-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl -- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
