On 5/8/06, James Pifer <jep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 21:04 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 19:39, Ed Greshko wrote: > > > > I've installed both src and devel packages for my kernel on FC5. I still > > > don't have anything at /usr/src/linux/include, which is where vmware > > > player is looking for the C headers. > > > > > > Can anyone tell me which packages I might be missing? > > > > Sounds like you are installing Vmware where Linux is the host OS. > > > > You need to download > > http://ftp.cvut.cz/vmware/vmware-any-any-update101.tar.gz > > > > Unpack it and read the documentation. > > You also need the kernel-devel package to exactly match > the running kernel. For some reason mine didn't work until > I removed it and let yum install it over again. > > -- Here's the weird thing. See the commands below. I can remove the devel packages I have installed. Then if I run yum install kernel-devel, it tries to install the wrong devel package. Any ideas? Thanks. James [root@laptop install]# uname -a Linux laptop.domain.com 2.6.16-1.2096_FC5smp #1 SMP Wed Apr 19 05:31:55 EDT 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@laptop install]# rpm -ivh kernel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5.src.rpm 1:kernel ########################################### [100%] [root@laptop install]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 [root@laptop install]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 [root@laptop install]# rpm -e kernel-smp-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 [root@laptop install]# rpm -e kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 [root@laptop install]# rpm -qa | grep kernel kernel-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 kernel-smp-2.6.16-1.2096_FC5 [root@laptop install]# yum install kernel-devel Loading "installonlyn" plugin Setting up Install Process Setting up repositories dries [1/7] freshrpms [2/7] livna [3/7] updates [4/7] atrpms-stable [5/7] base [6/7] extras [7/7] Reading repository metadata in from local files Parsing package install arguments Resolving Dependencies --> Populating transaction set with selected packages. Please wait. ---> Downloading header for kernel-devel to pack into transaction set. kernel-devel-2.6.16-1.211 100% |=========================| 981 kB 00:00 ---> Package kernel-devel.i686 0:2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 set to be installed --> Running transaction check Dependencies Resolved ============================================================================= Package Arch Version Repository Size ============================================================================= Installing: kernel-devel i686 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5 updates 4.7 M Transaction Summary ============================================================================= Install 1 Package(s) Update 0 Package(s) Remove 0 Package(s) Total download size: 4.7 M Is this ok [y/N]: n Exiting on user Command Complete! [root@laptop install]#
Upgrade the kernel and kernel-devel to the latest or do "yum install kernel-devel-$(uname -r).
