Akemi Yagi wrote:
> On Jan 21, 2008 12:57 AM,  <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>> Hi
>> I have installed SL5 and then I installed vmpalyer. While configuring
>> vmplayer it says that
>> "None of the pre-built vmmon modules for VMware Player is suitable for your
>> running kernel.  Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module
>> for
>> your system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)?"
>> after I entered, it says
>> What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your
>> running
>> kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include]
>> I could not find kernel-source or kernel-<version>.src.rpm anywhere.
>> Please help me in this regard
> 
> If you are running the standard kernel, yum install kernel-devel is
> all you need. For more details, see the wiki:
> 
> http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/I_need_the_Kernel_Source


Better, find someone who's packaged it properly for RHEL5, CentOS5 or SL5.

One should not need to build commonly=used software from source, unless 
one's running LFS, Gentoo or similar.

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John

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