Re: [SLUG] vmware-server and kernel headers

2007-06-13 Thread david
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 22:40 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi David, actually my last email meant to say that if you have an old version (of vmware) uninstall it first... not gcc. My apologies. I'm not a linux guru and I don't know debian ways. Can debian do rpm's? Is there a different

Re: [SLUG] vmware-server and kernel headers

2007-06-13 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=david Feisty archive had kernel 2.6.20-15 and 2.6.20-16 kernel 2.6.20-16 is NOT an automatic upgrade (wonder why?) vmware-server package had been upgraded to only work on 2.6.20-16 I still had 2.6.20-15 installed Other stuff too.. but that was the underlying problem. Make sure you

Re: [SLUG] vmware-server and kernel headers

2007-06-12 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi David, actually my last email meant to say that if you have an old version (of vmware) uninstall it first... not gcc. My apologies. I'm not a linux guru and I don't know debian ways. Can debian do rpm's? Is there a different installation you can use rather than apt-get? Also try to give a

Re: [SLUG] vmware-server and kernel headers

2007-06-11 Thread david
On Mon, 2007-06-11 at 15:35 +1000, Ben Donohue wrote: Hi David, make sure gcc is installed. gcc is the latest version according to apt-get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ ls -l /usr/bin/gcc lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 7 2007-05-26 22:10 /usr/bin/gcc - gcc-4.1 gcc-4.0 also exists, but isn't symlinked. Should

[SLUG] vmware-server and kernel headers

2007-06-10 Thread david
I'm getting some conflicts (?) with the feisty vmware package: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ uname -a Linux test 2.6.20-15-386 #2 Sun Apr 15 07:34:00 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ $ sudo apt-get install vmware-server The following NEW packages will be installed

Re: [SLUG] vmware-server and kernel headers

2007-06-10 Thread Ben Donohue
Hi David, make sure gcc is installed. if you've got an old version, uninstall it first. I run rpm -i VMware-server-1.0.1-29996.i386.rpm (or whatever version) after you've installed run /usr/bin/vmware-config.pl do you get that far? Ben david wrote: I'm getting some conflicts (?) with the