hi guys, another one from thicko me, installing VMware, prompted by konsole for the location of headers Code: What is the location of the directory of C header files that match your running kernel? [/usr/src/linux/include] i presumed /usr/src/linux/include is the default, so, just pressed enter (as usual, as default locatiions are usually correct) so i created it then Code: The path "/usr/src/linux/include" is an existing directory, but it does not contain a "linux" subdirectory as expected. where are the headers ? or do i need to redownload them ?
You need to install the Kernel headers first Code: sudo apt-get install linux-headers-386 Or if you installed the 686 kernel then you should type: Code: sudo apt-get install linux-headers-686
headers prob sorted, now new prob with VMware, installed and configured ok, but when i try to run, i get this (not very polite) error (not that i expected politeness from an OS) Code: root@dave-desktop:/home/dave# vmware /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libpng12.so.0/libpng12.so.0: no version information available (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified root@dave-desktop:/home/dave# thankies evertybody, i'm not acting thick on purpose, i realy am that thick, when it come to linux, again thankies
You can't launch graphical programs from the command line whilst logged in as root. If you want to run it as root, then type: Code: kdesu vmware But you don't actually need to run VMware as root anyway
thankies [ot]i can't remember (original post, you don't have to edit posts on my acount, i'm a big boy (in more ways than 1) i can take it (but not in that way)) but thats nothing new, but thanks again, those same keyboard charactors are getting seriously warn[/ot]
