[CentOS] VMWare Server Install Problem

[Akemi Yagi]

On Feb 11, 2008 9:43 PM, Harry Sukumar <hsukumar at bond.edu.au> wrote:
> Good Day All,
>
> I have issues installing VMware Server on CentOS 5, its asking for the
> location of c header files, i have installed them all but i am still
> unable to install VMWare Server
>
> here is the output
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
> The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is not an existing directory.
>
> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
> running
> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]

You probably do not have the kernel-devel package that matches your
*running* kernel.  Do a:

uname -r

and see if you have the kernel-devel with the same version.  If your
kernel is not the standard one, for example the PAE kernel, it will be
kernel-PAE-devel and so on.

Akemi