When you need to install VMWare tools, it will want to compile modules for your system if it is a newer distro. Here are the commands needed to install the required prerequisites to accomplish this:
Ubuntu
sudo apt-get install build-essential
Fedora 9
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
Novell SLES
yast2 -i binutils gcc gcc-c++ kernel-source make
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#1 by Livio on May 19, 2008 - 5:16 pm
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Funny, since Fedora 7 there’s no Core, ’cause Core and Extras merged into one official repository.
> Suse
Five years ago you should write “SuSE”, now you need to spell it “SUSE” or “openSUSE”.
PS: openSUSE prefers users to use zypper and not YaST from commandline to install packages (zypper in /packages/).
PPS: “Development Tools” will install more than you want it to.
#2 by troll on May 20, 2008 - 1:10 pm
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Thanks for the insight Livio. You really are superior.