In an X session, launch a Terminal and switch to root user. Update your system. Install kernel headers and tools required to compile and install VMware Tools. Extract VMware Tools to the tmp directory. Start the installation. Clean up. Like this: Like Loading Leave a Reply Cancel reply Enter your comment here Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. These were bare bone installs, containing basically just the system utilities from the tasksel menu no desktop gui environment.
I proceeded to install VMware tools the way I normally do and have for previous versions of Debian. It was at this point I when and pulled down the build-essential package, thinking maybe gcc wasn't installed, and I knew that I would need 'make' as well. After an apt-get install build-essential I received the same error when trying to re-install. Basically, what I found out is that when you do the base install with Debian 6 Squeeze through a net-install image you do not receive the header files for the kernel you are running.
These files are actually needed for VMware tools to recompile and configure itself for the version you are running. So, an easy fix…. After running this command, and then re installing your VMware tools again you should see the following during your installation process. Just accept the default here to not change the path, complete the rest of the VMware tools install and bobs your uncle. Clipboard sharing to help copy and paste textual data. Virtual machine sound support.
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