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. -- Cheers John -- spambait [log in to unmask] [log in to unmask] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-)